updating values

Hello all,I have a table with about 18000 rows, I need to UPDATE the strings
in the "name.x" column in each row by the strings from "name.y" given if
"name.x" is NA or " ". How can I do it?
Also I want to update values in other columns, but I think that will be the
same job.
Daniel

Daniel Marcelino
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