[R] removing missing values from a matrix

Bert Gunter gunter.berton at gene.com
Fri Oct 2 01:05:32 CEST 2009


However, I would hazard the guess that doing this is a (possibly
disastrously) bad idea.

Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics
 
 

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Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 3:34 PM
To: Amit Kumar
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Subject: Re: [R] removing missing values from a matrix

red[is.na(red)] <- 0

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On Oct 1, 2009, at 7:22 PM, "Amit Kumar" <amitkumartiwary at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi! All,
> I am working with a large matrix of dimension 23689 x 162. Some of the
> values of this matrix is missing (NA). And it looks something like
> that:
>
>> dim(red)
>  23689  162
>
>> red
>        [,1]  [,2]  [,3]  [,4]  [,5]
> [1,]    2     NA    4     9     6
> [2,]    5     NA    6   NA     1
> [3,]   NA    2     11   23    20
> [4,]    2      1     21  NA    3
> [5,]   NA    7     NA  52    NA
>
> Here I want to convert NA to zero everywhere in the matrix. I do no
> want to omit NA using na.omit(red). I want output something like that:
>> red
>        [,1]  [,2]  [,3]  [,4]  [,5]
> [1,]    2      0     4     9     6
> [2,]    5      0     6     0     1
> [3,]    0      2     11   23    20
> [4,]    2      1     21    0     3
> [5,]    0      7      0    52     0
>
> Please, help thanks.
> Amit
>
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