[R] Handling Missing Data

[David Winsemius]

On Sep 25, 2011, at 2:18 PM, David Cross wrote:

> Here is my problem: I have saved ten variables as an R binary file  
> (using save). Now, when I load the file (using load), I have access  
> to each of the variables individually (as objects), but not to all  
> ten variables as a set.  The reason this is important is that I want  
> to clean the data of all cases with missing values before doing my  
> analyses, and I can't see a way to do this without referring to the  
> entire data set as a whole.  I am sure I am missing something fairly  
> simple, but just can't see it.
>

That is what data.frames were designed to facilitate. It is hard to  
understand how you could not have come across that fundamental data  
structure. I think you need to do some more reading and homework.

-- 
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT