Dear list, I'm trying to replace NA-values with the preceding values in that column. This code works, but I am sure there is a more elegant way...
df <- data.frame(id = c("A1", NA, NA, NA, "B1", NA, NA, "C1", NA, NA, NA, NA), value = c(1:12)) rn <- c(rownames(df[!is.na(df$id),]), nrow(df)+1) rn <- diff(as.numeric(rn)) df$id2 <- rep(levels(df$id), rn) thanks for any help Patrick ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.