John Kane's reply sums it up! (Though you could use "", instead of " ", which would give you an "empty string" instead of the "space" character; but the resulting matrix would still consist entirely of "character" elements).
However, the real reason I am following up is to ask why you want the blank instead of the NA. If it is just for printing out or display, then the fact that the matrix has been converted to character probably does not matter. But if it is for compatibility with some other computational software that (e.g.) expects missing values to be represented by a blank, or some "null" representation, then it may not be so straightforward. So, if that might be an issue, please describe for us how you intend to use the result. Ted. On 09-May-11 19:56:39, Dat Mai wrote: > Thank you kind sir! > > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:25 PM, John Kane <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > >> >> (mat <- matrix(c(1,2,3,NA),2)) >> mat[is.na(mat)] <- " " >> mat >> >> But if you have a numerical matrix it coverts the matrix to character. >> >> --- On Mon, 5/9/11, Dat Mai <dat.d....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > From: Dat Mai <dat.d....@gmail.com> >> > Subject: [R] Setting NA to blank >> > To: r-help@r-project.org >> > Received: Monday, May 9, 2011, 2:46 PM >> > Hey All, >> > >> > I have a matrix m, and I wish to set all the NA values to >> > blank. How would I >> > do so? >> > >> > -- >> > Best, >> > Dat Mai >> > PhD Rotation Student >> > Albert Einstein College of Medicine -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 09-May-11 Time: 21:21:07 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ 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.
