[R] Dinamic variables in loop

[Thierry Onkelinx]

Dear Laura,

It looks like you want to remove all rows for which each column is NA.
You can to that with the code below.

na.matrix <- is.na(MyData)
all.na.row <- apply(na.matrix, 1, all)
MyData[!all.na.row, ]

Best regards,


ir. Thierry Onkelinx
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2018-05-08 13:57 GMT+02:00 Laura Ringienė <lauraringiene using gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I am a newbie in R and I have a problem.
> I want this line:
>
> newMyData <-MyData[!(is.na(col1)) | !(is.na(col2)) | !(is.na(col3)) | !(
> is.na(col4)) | !(is.na(col5)),]
>
> write in for loop. The number of col[number] may be different from 3 to 8
>
> Is there any ideas?
>
> Thank you
> Laura
>
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