On 3/08/2009, at 1:48 PM, David Winsemius wrote:


On Aug 2, 2009, at 7:29 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:


On 3/08/2009, at 11:14 AM, David Winsemius wrote:


On Aug 2, 2009, at 7:02 PM, Noah Silverman wrote:

Hi,

It seems as if the problem was caused by an odd quirk of the "scale"
function.

Some of my data have NA entries.

So, I substitute 0 for any NA with:
rawdata[is.na(rawdata)] <- 0

Perhaps this would have done what you intended:

rawdata[is.na(rawdata), ] <- 0

        I don't think this works at all.  E.g.:

        set.seed(42)
        junk <- matrix(rnorm(60),12,5)
        junk[sample(1:60,14)] <- NA
        junk[is.na(junk),] <- 0 # Throws an error.
        junk[is.na(junk)] <- 0  # Gives the desired result.\\

Then how about? ....

junk2 <- replace(junk, is.na(junk), 0)

That certainly works --- and is a potentially useful piece of syntax of which I was previously unaware (thank you) --- but the OP's syntax also worked (and gives identical results to yours). I.e. the OP's problem was *not* induced by the way he went about replacing NA's by zeroes, irrespective of the fact that that's a silly thing to do.

        cheers,

                Rolf Turner

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