[R] Exclude NA while summing

[R. Michael Weylandt]

Or, for this specific application

rowSums(XXX, na.rm = TRUE)

Michael

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Jim Holtman <jholtman at gmail.com> wrote:
> change to
>
>> row.sums.m <- apply(dummy.curr.res.m,1,sum, na.rm = TRUE)
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> On Nov 17, 2011, at 5:18, Vikram Bahure <economics.vikram at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Dear R users,
>>
>> I am new to R and have some query.
>>
>> I am having a dataset with binary output 0's and ones. But along with it it
>> has NA's too. I want to sum all the rows and get the sum total for each
>> column.
>>
>> But whenever there is a NA in an row the sum of the row is returned as NA
>> so I am not able to sum up the values.
>>
>> *row.sums.m <- apply(dummy.curr.res.m,1,sum)*
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>> It would be helpful if I get some input on this.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Vikram
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