[R] replacing values in a vector

[Kaspar Pflugshaupt]

On Thursday 26 July 2001 13:42, Sven Garbade wrote:                           
                                                                 
> Hi all,
>
> there is a vector v with several NAs. I want to create a new vector n of
> the same length as v and the same NAs as in v and tried this:
>
> n <- vector(length=length(v), mode="numeric")
> replace(n, which(is.na(v)), NA)
>
> but this does't work, all values in n are 0. What went wrong?

You have to assign the result of the replacement, like in

n <- replace(n, which(is.na(v)), NA)

Or, somewhat simpler:

n[is.na(v)] <- NA


Cheers

Kaspar Pflugshaupt

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Kaspar Pflugshaupt
Geobotanical Institute
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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