[R] aov() and NaN

ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Fri Jul 5 10:49:47 CEST 2002


aov does not.  It's na.action argument does.  It is dscribed on the help
page for lm, which ?aov refers to.

BTW, missing values in R are not the same thing as NaNs, but for this
purpose NaNs are treated as missing.

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Jan Malte Wiener wrote:

> hi,
> another anova question !!
> how does aov() treat missing values ?
>
> since it might depend on my experimental design:
> i have a within subject design with two factors ...
>
> i use aov() like this:
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> aov(performance~type*block+Error(subj/(type+block)),data=anovaData)
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> now it might happen that i have a couple of NaN data points in my result
> dataFrame.
> how can i know/control how aov() is treating those missing values ?
>
> greetinx jan
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