[R] replacing NA values in an expression

[Ben Bolker]

    Are you sure you mean y can be *either* 0 or 1?  In that case y*log(y)
is always either undefined (in which case you want it set to 0) or 0 in
any case (because log(1)=0).
   If you mean that y is *between* 0 and 1 then

  ifelse(y==0,0,y*log(y))

  should do the trick.

On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Faheem Mitha wrote:

> Dear R people,
> 
> This is simple, nay trivial question. I do the following. I just want to
> know what is the slickest/most elegant method. I have an expression
> containing the term
> 
> (y)*log(y)
> 
> where y can take the value either 0 or 1. If y is 0 then the expression is
> undefined, but in this case I want to replace the result by 0 in the
> expression. I don't want to write a separate function for this, which
> would be the simplest way of handling it, That is, I want this replacement
> to be evaluated as part of the expression. What is the best way to do
> this?
>                                             Faheem.
> 
> 
> 
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