On Mar 30, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> 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"))
There is also the seminal:
is.na(dat0) <- dat0 == -999
See ?is.na, specifically the assignment variant.
Regards,
Marc Schwartz
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