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Message-ID: <A4E5A0B016B8CB41A485FC629B633CED4A3342EFC3@GOLD.corp.lgc-group.com>
Date: 2013-01-21T15:42:38Z
From: S Ellison
Subject: missing values are not allowed in subscripted assignments of	data frames
In-Reply-To: <CAA1twZRpCRs46otNZjAML21WpUypo=jb7jY=WkPw=_q5A3Z0bQ@mail.gmail.com>

> I am trying to replace community numbers with  community 
> names (character).
> I am using the following code:
> 
> data[data$commNo==786, "commNo"]<-"Name of the Community"
> 
> Unfortunately, I get the error message
>  missing values are not allowed in subscripted assignments of 
> data frames
> 
> However, when I check data$commNo with table(useNA="always") or with
> table(is.na(data$commNo)) it tells me that there are no NA's 
> at all... ?

Two things to check:
Are there matches to data$commNo==786 ?
And is commNo numeric, character or factor?

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