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Receiving NaN message

5 messages · Robert Piliero, Jim Lemon, PIKAL Petr +2 more

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Hello,

I am working on a Coursera assignment and have combined 332 files into a
single data frame called "dat". The dataframe has 4 columns,

1. Date
2. Sulfate (numerical values)
3. Nitrate  (numerical  values)
4. ID # (numerical values).

Our assignment is to write a function pollutantmean <- function(directory,
pollutant, ID). whereby we can calculate the mean by inputting the
pollutant name and ID #.

I have reached the stage of subsetting the date e.g. by ID # 1-10, however
when I do so and then calculate the mean of this subset I receive the NaN
message (even though I have instructed R to disregard the "NA"'s).


*Beginning Code: *
getwd()
read.csv(specdata)
specdata <- ("C:/Users/rober/specdata")
list.files(specdata)
files_full <- list.files(specdata, full.names=TRUE)
files_full
dat <- data.frame()
for (i in 1:332){
  dat <- rbind(dat,read.csv(files_full[i]))
}
str(dat)
mean(dat$sulfate, na.rm=TRUE)

*Code which generated the NaN message. *
dat1_10 <- dat[which(dat[,ID] ==1:10),]
mean(dat1_10$sulfate, na.rm=TRUE)

Am I making a mistake in subsetting the rows with ID's 1:10? Any advice
would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Robert

Robert J. Piliero

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Hi Robert,
There is a policy of not doing people's homework for them on the list.
Nevertheless, I would advise you to read up on how to use the
comparison operator (==). Good luck.

Jim


On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 7:10 AM, Robert Piliero
<robert.piliero at gmail.com> wrote:
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Hi

And above what Jim adviced you should look also at
?match

help page.

Cheers
Petr
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Hello,

And in addition to what Jim and Petr said, take a look at ?%in%.

Rui Barradas

Em 17-01-2017 10:50, PIKAL Petr escreveu:
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And (re: "dat[,ID]"), the page on "Extract or Replace Parts of an Object":

? Extract

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David L Carlson
Department of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77840-4352

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Subject: Re: [R] Receiving NaN message

Hello,

And in addition to what Jim and Petr said, take a look at ?%in%.

Rui Barradas

Em 17-01-2017 10:50, PIKAL Petr escreveu:
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