Subscripting problem with is.na()
Dear Georg, You need to learn a bit more about the subsetting methods, depending on the object structure you're trying to subset. More specifically, when you run this: ds_test[is.na(ds_test$var1)] you get this error: "Error in `[.data.frame`(ds_test, is.na(ds_test$var1)) : undefined columns selected" This means that R does not understand which column you're trying to select. But you're actually trying to select rows. Using a single bracket '[' on a data.frame does the same as for matrices: you need to specify rows and columns, like this: ds_test[is.na(ds_test$var1), ] ## notice the last comma ds_test[is.na(ds_test$var1), ] <- 0 ## works on all columns because you didn't specify any after the comma If you want it only for "var1", then you need to specify the column: ds_test[is.na(ds_test$var1), "var1"] <- 0 It's the same problem with your 2nd and 4th tries (4th one has other problems). Your 3rd try does not change ds_test at all. HTH, Ivan -- Ivan Calandra, PhD Scientific Mediator University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne GEGENAA - EA 3795 CREA - 2 esplanade Roland Garros 51100 Reims, France +33(0)3 26 77 36 89 ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr -- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Calandra https://publons.com/author/705639/ Le 23/06/2016 ? 15:57, G.Maubach at weinwolf.de a ?crit :
Hi All,
I would like to recode my NAs to 0. Using a single vector everything is
fine.
But if I use a data.frame things go wrong:
-- cut --
var1 <- c(1:3, NA, 5:7, NA, 9:10)
var2 <- c(1:3, NA, 5:7, NA, 9:10)
ds_test <-
data.frame(var1, var2)
test <- var1
test[is.na(test)] <- 0
test # NA recoded OK
# First try
ds_test[is.na(ds_test$var1)] <- 0 # duplicate subscripts WRONG
# Second try
ds_test[is.na("var1")] <- 0
ds_test$var1 # not recoded WRONG
# Third try: to me the most intuitive approach
is.na(ds_test["var1"]) <- 0 # attempt to select less than one element in
integerOneIndex WRONG
# Fourth try
ds_test[is.na(var1)] <- 0 # duplicate subscripts for columns WRONG
-- cut --
How can I do it correctly?
Where could I have found something about it?
Kind regards
Georg
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