I inserted na.strings='' and that seemed to work except for a problem with a plot statement
plot(x1$NA,type='l',ylab='M kg/ y ',xlab='') Error: unexpected numeric constant in "plot(x1$NA" > tail(x1) AP EU LA NA total Jun 2012 2.32 2.26 5.38 13.74 23.70 Jul 2012 2.46 2.21 5.33 12.94 22.94 Aug 2012 2.69 2.24 5.28 13.32 23.54 Sep 2012 2.62 2.28 5.14 12.99 23.06 Oct 2012 2.61 2.27 5.31 12.59 22.80 Nov 2012 2.55 2.18 5.08 12.56 22.39 > str(x1) ‘zoo’ series from Dec 2007 to Nov 2012 Data: num [1:60, 1:5] 2.02 1.91 1.79 1.66 1.37 1.25 1.32 1.31 1.32 1.31 ... - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2 ..$ : NULL ..$ : chr [1:5] "AP" "EU" "LA" "NA" ... Index: Class 'yearmon' num [1:60] 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 ... What's wrong with my plot statement ? -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Replace-NA-with-something-else-tp4649974p4649988.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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.