Message-ID: <c84ed6950911260839o252bab23i18ddf38a74b7de55@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2009-11-26T16:39:52Z
From: R Help
Subject: Missing and number of days
In-Reply-To: <cdc083ac0911260830q12d3eeb7se0876749371c2647@mail.gmail.com>
For your first question, I believe that
dat[dat==-9]=NA
should do the trick
For your second, are you dates in the Date() format? If not, try ?Date
Once you get them in Date format, then you can simply subtract them
d1 = as.Date('20090604',format="%Y%m%d")
d2 = as.Date('20080604',format="%Y%m%d")
d1-d2
Time difference of 365 days
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Val <valkremk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> Assume ?that I have a ?data set (?xcv?) with several ?variables ?and some of
> the variables have a missing observation ?represented by -9 as shown below.
> ?I want to exclude these observations from the analysis ( as a NA). ?Is
> there a command that I can do it for the entire data set rather than one by
> one for each variable ( tmp <- xcv[xcv$v1 != -9, ])
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> ? ? ?V1 v2 v3 v4
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> 11 ? ?23 ?14 ?-9
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> 12 ? ?-9 ?21 ? 3
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> ? ? -9 ? 30 ?41 ?25
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> ? ? 15 ? 07 -9 ?10
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> ?and I want the results as follows
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> ? ? ?V1 ? ?v2 ? ? v3 ? ? ?v4
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> 11 ? ? ? 23 ? ?14 ? ? NA
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> ? ? ? 12 ? NA ? ?21 ? ? ?3
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> ? ? ? NA ? 30 ? ?41 ? ? 25
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> ? ? ? ?15 ? ? 07 ? NA ? ?10
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> The second question is I want to calculate the number of days between two
> dates
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> ? ?Start ? ? ? ? ? end ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? number of days
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> 20020626 ? ?20020805 ? ? ? ? ? ? 40
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> 20030101 ? ?20030421 ? ? ? ? ? ? 110
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> How do I do it in R?
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> Thanks in advance
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