[R] Replacing missing values

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Jean Vidal wrote:

> I'm discovering R (very impressive), and didn't find in the docs a simple
> method for replacing, in a data frame, missing values (NA) with the
> column's mean (or any other method for reconstructing missing values when
> needed).

That's the purpose of na.action's, except that mean imputation is not
a great idea.  If you look at na.omit it would be easy to write
na.mean.impute if you really want to.

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