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4 messages · Kitty Lee, Jim Lemon, gledson picharski +1 more

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Hi. This may be a straight-forward question...

I have a time series from 1950 to 2000 (by year) with missing values. 

Sometimes only a year has value and the adjacent years have missing data, e.g.

1950 2.7
1951 
1952
1953 3.4
1954
1955
1956 2.9
1957 3.6
1958 2.7


When I use plot (type='l'), the line can't connect the 'stand-alone' years. Is there a way I have have R to skip over the NA and draw a line with the points available?

Thanks!

k.
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Kitty Lee wrote:
Hi Kitty,
Assuming that the above is a data frame with two columns, the second of 
which is named "value":

plot(my.data.frame[!is.na(my.data.frame$value),],type="l")

Jim
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Look at:

http://geography.uoregon.edu/geogr/topics/maps.htm

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