[R] Missing Values

[Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)]

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> project.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Newmiller
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 1:46 PM
> To: grond; r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Missing Values
> 
> Don't give it any. Instead of banks$two, use na.omit(banks$two).
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> grond <agellis at usgs.gov> wrote:
> 
> >I am using bootstrap and cannot figure how to tell R to ignore missing
> >values
> >(NA)
> >
> >I tried this syntax and it did not work.  The name of the file is
> banks
> >the
> >column two.
> >
> >bootmean(banks$two,na.rm = True, conf = 90,nrep = 1000)
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> >
> >
> >

You haven't said where you got the function bootmean() and you have not provided a reproducible example, so I can't do any testing.  Jeff's solution may work for you.  However, in your call to bootmean you have na.rm=True.  R is case sensitive.  True is not equal to TRUE.  Try changing your code to 

bootmean(banks$two, na.rm = TRUE, conf = 90,nrep = 1000)


Hope this is helpful,

Dan

Daniel J. Nordlund
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
Planning, Performance, and Accountability
Research and Data Analysis Division
Olympia, WA 98504-5204