[R] Handling "NA" in summation
Jeff Newmiller
jdnewmil at dcn.davis.CA.us
Mon Sep 7 01:20:46 CEST 2015
So you have decided that NA==0 and Inf == 0... if that is really what you want then it looks like that is what you got. If you don't like the fact that you are mucking with your data, then make a copy of the data first and muck with that.
Blegh.
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On September 6, 2015 3:48:19 PM PDT, ce <zadig_1 at excite.com> wrote:
>
>
>I use something like :
>
>dataframe[ is.na(dataframe) ] <- 0
>dataframe[ is.nan(dataframe) ] <- 0
>dataframe[ is.infinite(dataframe) ] <- 0
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: "Olu Ola via R-help" [r-help at r-project.org]
>Date: 09/06/2015 06:24 PM
>To: r-help at r-project.org
>Subject: [R] Handling "NA" in summation
>
>Hello,
>I am currently working with a dataframe which has some missing values
>represented by "NA". whenever, I add two columns in which at least one
>of the pair of an observation is "NA", the sum returns zero. That is
>for the same observation, if
>
>dataframe$A = 20
>dataframe$B = NA
>
>dataframe$A + dataframe$B returns zero.
>
>I do not want to delete the observations with the NA's. How do I go
>about carrying out the necessary operations without deleting the
>observations with the NA's
>
>Thank you
>
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