[R] counting missing values

[Hotz, T.]

Dear Vincent

> I'd like to know if there is a function already implemented 
> to count the
> number of occurence of a given values in a vector

Does

my.matrix<-cbind(c(0,1,NA),c(NA,1,NA))
count.NA<-function(the.matrix){
  result<-t(apply(the.matrix,1,function(x,n){
    m<-sum(is.na(x))
    c(m,m/n)
  },n=dim(the.matrix)[2]))
  dimnames(result)<-list(dimnames(the.matrix)[[1]],c("row count","proportion"))
  result
}
count.NA(my.matrix)

do what you were looking for? Hope that helps.

Cheers

Thomas

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Thomas Hotz
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