[R] Exclude NA while summing

Jim Holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 11:51:04 CET 2011


change to

> row.sums.m <- apply(dummy.curr.res.m,1,sum, na.rm = TRUE)

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On Nov 17, 2011, at 5:18, Vikram Bahure <economics.vikram at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear R users,
> 
> I am new to R and have some query.
> 
> I am having a dataset with binary output 0's and ones. But along with it it
> has NA's too. I want to sum all the rows and get the sum total for each
> column.
> 
> But whenever there is a NA in an row the sum of the row is returned as NA
> so I am not able to sum up the values.
> 
> *row.sums.m <- apply(dummy.curr.res.m,1,sum)*
> 
> It would be helpful if I get some input on this.
> 
> 
> Regards
> Vikram
> 
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