Hi Nandini,
On 4/29/2011 6:45 AM, Nandini B wrote:
Hello,
I have a sample data frame which looks like this
day od month
1 1 0.1 2
2 3 #VALUE! 1
3 5 0.4 12
4 7 0.8 10
5 11 - 3
6 14 s 7
7 18 -- 12
8 27 19 7
> x <- data.frame(day=1:8, od =
c(0.1,"#VALUE!",0.4,0.8,"-","s","--",19), month = c(2,1,12,10,3,7,12,7))
> x
day od month
1 1 0.1 2
2 2 #VALUE! 1
3 3 0.4 12
4 4 0.8 10
5 5 - 3
6 6 s 7
7 7 -- 12
8 8 19 7
> x$od <- as.numeric(as.character(x$od))
Warning message:
NAs introduced by coercion
> x
day od month
1 1 0.1 2
2 2 NA 1
3 3 0.4 12
4 4 0.8 10
5 5 NA 3
6 6 NA 7
7 7 NA 12
8 8 19.0 7
Best,
Jim
Now i wish to filter all the non numeric values and replace it with "NA". The data frame
is actually huge and the non numeric characters vary from "-" to a string to absolutely
anything!!!
Can anyone please help ?
Thank you,
Warm Regards,
Nandini
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