[R] how to remove the empty element in the vector

Roger D. Peng rdpeng at gmail.com
Thu Oct 19 21:46:15 CEST 2006


How about

x[-c(2, 3)]

-roger

Yanqin Yang wrote:
> Hello,
>    
>   Would anyone kindly tell me how to remove the empty element in the vector object?
>   For example, 
>   > x
> [1] "a" ""  ""  "c" "c" "c" "d"
>> unique(x)
> [1] "a" ""  "c" "d"
> How could I get the output like: "a","c","d"? 
>    
>   Thanks,
>    
>   Yanqin
>    
> 
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