[R] how to count number of elements in a vector that are not NA ?

Giovanni Petris GPetris at uark.edu
Tue Jul 7 23:30:20 CEST 2009


sum(!is.na(x))

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> Hi,
> 
> is there a simpler way to count the number of elements in a vector
> that are not NA than this:
> 
> countN <- function (v) {
>     return (Reduce(function (x, y) x + y, ifelse(is.na(v), 0, 1)))
> }
> 
> ?
> 
>  - Godmar
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