Joe
Testing is something _exists_ is different than testing if something has what
you are referring to as a valid value. Here is one way to do what I think you
are doing versus testing if something exists
validVal <- function(x, val){
if (!is.numeric(x)) stop('Not a numeric variable')
else x > val
}
x <- 1
y <- 'foo'
validVal(x, 0)
validVal(x, 1)
validVal(y, 0)
exists('x')
-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On
Behalf Of Joseph Trubisz
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 2:09 PM
To: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: [R] How to test if something doesn't exist
Couldn't exactly explain the subject, so here's the example:
idx<-which(blah[,1]=="xyz")
idx
integer(0)
How do I test that idx has a valid value (namely, > 0)?
TiA,
Joe
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