Hi Rui, I use the code to fix my problem: try$newcol <- gsub(" NA", "", try$newcol)
But, I'll try your solution later. Thank you for your help. Kai On Wednesday, June 2, 2021, 02:08:18 PM PDT, Kai Yang via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote: Hi List, I use paste function to concatenate 3 character columns together. when I run table to see that, I found 3 categories. How can I write script to trim NA in 2nd and 3rd group and set the first one as NA? Thanks, Kai NA NA NA NA NA Adenocarcinoma NA Other NA [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.