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summing columns with NAs present

3 messages · Dimitri Liakhovitski, Jorge Ivan Velez

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Hello!

I have a data frame with some NAs.
test<-data.frame(a=c(1,2,NA),b=c(10,NA,20))

I need to sum up values in 2 variables. However:
test$a+test$b
procudes NAs in rows that have NAs.

How could I sum up columns while ignoring NAs (the way the function
sum(..., na.rm=T) works?
Thank you!
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Sorry, never mind - I have to use rowSums with na.rm=T
Dimitri

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski
<dimitri.liakhovitski at gmail.com> wrote: