Thank you very much, Bill - it worked. Wow, that's very wordy! On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:09 AM, William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com> wrote: > Try both na.action=na.pass and exclude=NULL, the first is for > xtabs' call to model.frame and the second for when it prepares > the data from model.frame's output for a call to table. > > xtabs(formula = ~a + b, data = x, na.action = na.pass, exclude = NULL) > Bill Dunlap > TIBCO Software > wdunlap tibco.com > > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Dimitri Liakhovitski > <dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Please help: >> >> # I have a data frame x: >> x <- data.frame(a = c(1:3, NA), b = c(NA, 2:4)) >> >> # I run a cross-tab keeping NAs, like this: >> table(x[c("a", "b")], useNA = "ifany") >> >> # I want to reproduce it using xtabs, but it ignores NAs: >> xtabs(~ a + b, x) >> >> # I can't figure out how to force xtabs to include NAs. >> # All my attempts below fail to include NAs: >> xtabs(~ a + b, x, na.action(na.pass)) >> xtabs(~ a + b, x, na.action = "na.pass") >> xtabs(~ a + b, x, na.action(na.pass(x))) >> xtabs(~ a + b, x, exclude = NULL) >> >> Thank you for your hints! >> -- >> Dimitri Liakhovitski >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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