[R] NA=NA

ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Sat Jun 29 10:54:50 CEST 2002


Use is.na().

Since NA denotes unknown, the result is always unknown.


On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Remigijus Lapinskas wrote:

> Hello R-help,
>
> My vector aa has some NA's:
>
> > aa_c(NA,1)

Oh, please don't post ugly code like that.  If you must use `_' leave
spaces around it (and be aware that it will be deprecated in 1.6.0).

> > aa=="NA"
> [1]    NA FALSE
> > aa==NA
> [1]   NA   NA
>
> How can I detect NA's?
> In other words, I would like my answer to be TRUE  FALSE.
>
> Best regards,
>  Remigijus                          mailto:remigijus.lapinskas at maf.vu.lt
>
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