On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Neil Leonard wrote:

> I was wondering how I would recode a variable as being NA (or missing).
It is the values, not the variable that are NA.  For example

x <- 1:20
ind <- x%%4==0
ind
x[ind] <- NA  # or is.na(x[ind]) <- TRUE

That works for logical, integer, numeric, complex and character variables.
(Raw and list vecctors do not have missing values.)

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