Colleagues
After reading in some clinical data, I discovered that the subject ID
column contains entries only for the first record for each
individual; subsequent rows are recorded as NA. For example:
> 1
> NA
> NA
> NA
> NA
> 2
> NA
> NA
> NA
> NA
> 3
> NA
> NA
> ...
I can think of various approaches to replace the NA values with
appropriate entries. I could loop through each row - if the value is
NA, I replace it with the entry from the row above. Or, I could find
the positions of the non-NA values with match, then replace groups of
entries (e.g., positions 2-5) with appropriate entries, again with a
loop.
But, I expect that R allows some more clever approach to the
problem. Any thoughts?
Dennis
Dennis Fisher MD
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