na.replace {gtools}

Replace Missing Values

Description

Replace missing values

Usage

na.replace(x, replace, ...)

Arguments

x

vector possibly containing missing (NA) values

replace

either a scalar replacement value, or a function returning a scalar value

...

Optional arguments to be passed to replace

Details

This is a convenience function that is the same as x[is.na(x)] <- replace

Value

Vector with missing values (NA) replaced by the value of replace.

Author(s)

Gregory R. Warnes [e-mail]

See Also

is.na, na.omit

Examples

x <- c(1, 2, 3, NA, 6, 7, 8, NA, NA)

# Replace with a specified value
na.replace(x, "999")

# Replace with the calculated median
na.replace(x, median, na.rm = TRUE)