[R] missing values in csv file

Michael Dewey lists at dewey.myzen.co.uk
Wed Feb 17 14:19:20 CET 2016


Assuming it is a character variable

test <- c("a", NA, "b")
 > test
[1] "a" NA  "b"
 > test[is.na(test)] <- " "
 > test
[1] "a" " " "b"

but if it is numeric this as, as others have said, almost certainly not 
what you really wanted to do

On 17/02/2016 10:04, Jan Kacaba wrote:
> In my original data a csv file I have missing values. If I use read.table
> the missing values are replaced by NAs.
>
> Is it possible to get object where missing values aren't replaced with NAs?
> Is it possible to replace NAs with empty space?
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