On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:51 AM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mar 30, 2011, at 16:05 , Christopher Desjardins wrote: > >>> >>> dat0 <- read.table('tim1.dat', na = -999) >>> >> >> Ah ... yes. I knew that but clearly didn't at the time of my question or >> script writing. >> Thanks, >> Chris > > Depending on where your data came from, you could get caught by the fact that > the above is really ...na.strings="-999"... and that is not going to work if > the actual code is (say) -999.00. > > Another straightforward option is dat0[dat0 == -999] <- NA
That's a good point about -999.00. If we knew all the variations in the input then a workaround for that would be to cover all of them: read.table("myfile", ...whatever..., na.strings = c("-999", "-999.0", "-999.00")) -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.