[R] How to include NA's of a factor in table?

[Heinz Tuechler]

Thank you Jacques and Gabor!

Your solution does work and it led me to try also:

table(factor(fcv, exclude=NULL))  # shows a, c, NA 

Greetings,
Heinz



At 08:34 10.07.2006 -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>If we specify exclude=NULL in factor then it need not also be
>specified in table:
>
>fcv <- factor(c('a', NA, 'c'), exclude=NULL)
>table(fcv)
>
>
>
>On 7/10/06, Jacques VESLOT <jacques.veslot at good.ibl.fr> wrote:
>> fcv <- factor(c('a', NA, 'c'), exclude=NULL)
>> table(fcv, exclude=NULL)
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>> Heinz Tuechler a écrit :
>> > Dear All,
>> >
>> > Is there a better way to include NA's of a factor in the output of
table()
>> > than using as.character()?
>> > Admittedly, I do not understand the help page for table concerning the
>> > exclude argument applied to factors. I tried in different ways, but could
>> > not get NA to be included in the table, if not using as.character() (see
>> > example).
>> >
>> > Greetings,
>> > Heinz
>> >
>> > ## example
>> > fcv <- factor(c('a', NA, 'c'))
>> > table(fcv)                # shows a, c
>> > table(fcv, exclude='a')   # shows c
>> > table(fcv, exclude="")    # shows a, c
>> > table(fcv, exclude=NULL)  # shows a, c
>> > table(as.character(fcv), exclude=NULL) # shows a, c, NA
>> >
>> > platform       i386-pc-mingw32
>> > arch           i386
>> > os             mingw32
>> > system         i386, mingw32
>> > status         Patched
>> > major          2
>> > minor          3.1
>> > year           2006
>> > month          07
>> > day            01
>> > svn rev        38471
>> > language       R
>> > version.string Version 2.3.1 Patched (2006-07-01 r38471)
>> >
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