?NA ?read.table (note the "na.strings" argument) You would have to handle character fields/columns (which would by default be converted to factors)specially to convert blanks to missing within R.
Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of frenchcr Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 11:40 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] enter "missing" into missing fields if ive got an incomplete data set thats got thousands of rows and 80 columns with random missing fields...like this say... 3 b 3 4 1 1 x 2 ? how do i turn it into.... 3 b 3 4 missing 1 1 x 2 ...i.e., i want to insert the word "missing" into the fields that are empty? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/enter-%22missing%22-into-missing-fields-tp26203288p262 03288.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. ______________________________________________ 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.
