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R (3.1.2) sub-setting code related to "NA" on Windows not working!

3 messages · Sarada Samantaray, Peter Dalgaard, John Kane

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My AirQuality[4,1] is equal to 18 and AirQuality[5,1] is equal to NA.
When I type the following
For is.na(AirQuality[5,1]) I am expecting a TRUE (but False is the output from R). Can you please help. Or Let me know what I am doing wrong!
RegardsSarada
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This is almost unreadable due to HTML posting (do read the posting guide!). However, it would seem that you somehow got your data converted to factors of which one level is NA. 

This may be surprising, but the difference is like that of
[1] NA 18
Levels: 18 NA
[1] <NA> 18  
Levels: 18

Notice that NA can be a real factor level, for instance abbreviating "North America" or "Noradrenaline".

It is fairly easy to generate this situation during data input, e.g.
+ NA
+ 18", na.strings="")$V1
[1] NA 18
Levels: 18 NA
 
-pd
On 13 Apr 2015, at 15:33 , Sarada Samantaray <sarada at greenhorizon.in> wrote:

            

  
    
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Below is what your code looked like in R-helpl.

I looked at it for about 5 seconds and said, "If the poster cannot understand something as simple as "DO NOT post in HTML" it's not worth my time to decypher the mess. 

You are lucky Peter is more tolerant.

Please do not post in HTML.

#### code as it appears in R-help
My AirQuality[4,1] is equal to 18 and AirQuality[5,1] is equal to NA. When I type the following > is.na(AirQuality[5,1])[1] FALSE> AirQuality[5,1][1] NA68 Levels: 1 10 108 11 110 115 118 > 12 122 13 135 ... NA> is.na(AirQuality[4,1])[1] FALSE> AirQuality[4,1][1] 1868 Levels: 1 > 10 108 11 110 115 118 12 122 13 135 ... NA>
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John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
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