[R] pruning data

[stephen sefick]

?is.na
?sum
?if
?else

I think that is how I would approach it, but I could be far off.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Payam
Minoofar<payam.minoofar at meissner.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am trying to prune a data frame for partial least squares analysis.
> I need to delete an entire row if one cell in the row contains a NA.
>
> Presently, I am running a loop that is supposed to extract the rows
> that are full of numbers into a second data frame and skips the rows
> that contain a single NA value.
>
> I want to know if there is a simple way to determine if a row (about
> 20 columns) contains a single NA value without running a loop that
> checks each individual cell.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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