On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> Tim Smith wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had a matrix with NULL values, which I wanted to replace with NA. Is there
>> an efficient way to do this?
>>
>> Small sample input matrix:
>> A B C D E
>> 1 5222.18 6355.10 4392.68 2607.41 4524.09
>> 2 NULL 257.33 NULL 161.51 119.44
>> 3 NULL 274.80 305.28 443.27 NULL
>> 4 1759.76 1556.45 1224.06 1558.73 1837.09
>
>
> How is it possible to construct such a matrix?
> A <- matrix(list(5222.18, NULL, NULL, 1759.76), 4, 1)
> A
[,1]
[1,] 5222.18
[2,] NULL
[3,] NULL
[4,] 1759.76
A[sapply(A, is.null)] <- NA
A
[,1]
[1,] 5222.18
[2,] NA
[3,] NA
[4,] 1759.76
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