[R] Logical function to turn missing values to 0's

[Gustavo Carvalho]

Hello rafamoral,

Try this:

ifelse(is.na(x),0,x)

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:32 PM, rafamoral <rafa_moral2004 at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
>
> I have a dataset which contains some missing values, and I need to replace
> them with zeros. I tried using the following:
>
> x <- matrix(data=rep(c(1,2,3,NA),6), ncol=6, nrow=6)
>
> y <- matrix(data=0, ncol=ncol(x), nrow=nrow(x))
>
> for(i in 1:nrow(x)) {
>
> for(j in 1:ncol(x)) {
>
> y[i,j] <- ifelse(x[i,j]==NA, 0, x[i,j])
>
> }}
>
> But y returns an NA matrix.
> I'd appreciate any help.
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