[R] Removing Bad Data

[Mario Valle]

To recover also the date:

x<- read.table('d.dat', na.strings='-')
x$V1<- as.Date(x$V1, "%m/%d/%Y")


Hope it helps
                             mario

On 16-Mar-11 06:45, Rahul Kaura wrote:
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> I created a couple of timeSeries objects - when I was merging them , I got an
> error.
> Looking at the data , I see that one of the time series has
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> 06/30/2007  0.0028       0.0183  0.0122      0.0042  0.0095    -        
>   07/31/2007 -0.0111       0.0255  0.0096     -0.0069 -0.0024  0.0043     
>   08/31/2007 -0.0108      -0.0237 -0.0062     -0.0138 -0.0173 -0.0065     
>   09/30/2007  0.0197       0.0477  0.0410      0.0331  0.0114  0.0322     
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> The "-" (first row, last column) is getting picked up from excel and is not a
> number
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> How do I check for this and replace with zero
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