Hello List, I have a data frame like: V130 V131 V132 V133 V134 V135 V136 1 0 0 0.9 0 0.9 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0.8 3 0 0 0 0 0.9 0 0 4 0.9 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 5 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0.9 0 0 0.9 7 0 0 0.8 0 0 0 0 8 0.9 0 0 0.9 0.8 0 9 0 0 0 0.9 0.9 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 I would like to fill the empty cells with a 0... how to address those empty cells? thanks for your help! best, Simone
you could try something along these lines: DF <- data.frame(V1 = c(0, 0.9, " ", 0.8, 0.1, 0), V2 = c(0.9, " ", 0.8, 0.7, " ", 1)) DF sapply(DF, function (x) as.numeric(gsub("(^ +)|( +$)", "0", x))) I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris On 4/19/2011 11:39 AM, Simone Gabbriellini wrote:> Hello List, > > I have a data frame like: > > V130 V131 V132 V133 V134 V135 V136 > 1 0 0 0.9 0 0.9 0 0 > 2 0 0 0 0 0 0.8 > 3 0 0 0 0 0.9 0 0 > 4 0.9 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 > 5 0 0 0 > 6 0 0 0 0.9 0 0 0.9 > 7 0 0 0.8 0 0 0 0 > 8 0.9 0 0 0.9 0.8 0 > 9 0 0 0 0.9 0.9 0 0 > 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 > > I would like to fill the empty cells with a 0... how to address those empty cells? > > thanks for your help! > > best, > Simone > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > 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. >-- Dimitris Rizopoulos Assistant Professor Department of Biostatistics Erasmus University Medical Center Address: PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, the Netherlands Tel: +31/(0)10/7043478 Fax: +31/(0)10/7043014 Web: http://www.erasmusmc.nl/biostatistiek/
On 04/19/2011 07:39 PM, Simone Gabbriellini wrote:> Hello List, > > I have a data frame like: > > V130 V131 V132 V133 V134 V135 V136 > 1 0 0 0.9 0 0.9 0 0 > 2 0 0 0 0 0 0.8 > 3 0 0 0 0 0.9 0 0 > 4 0.9 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 > 5 0 0 0 > 6 0 0 0 0.9 0 0 0.9 > 7 0 0 0.8 0 0 0 0 > 8 0.9 0 0 0.9 0.8 0 > 9 0 0 0 0.9 0.9 0 0 > 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 > > I would like to fill the empty cells with a 0... how to address those empty cells? >Hi Simone, I'm somewhat surprised that the empty cells aren't displayed as "NA". If they are in fact NAs, you could use: mydataframe[is.na(mydataframe)]<-0 Jim
On 19/04/11 21:39, Simone Gabbriellini wrote:> Hello List, > > I have a data frame like: > > V130 V131 V132 V133 V134 V135 V136 > 1 0 0 0.9 0 0.9 0 0 > 2 0 0 0 0 0 0.8 > 3 0 0 0 0 0.9 0 0 > 4 0.9 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 > 5 0 0 0 > 6 0 0 0 0.9 0 0 0.9 > 7 0 0 0.8 0 0 0 0 > 8 0.9 0 0 0.9 0.8 0 > 9 0 0 0 0.9 0.9 0 0 > 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.9 > > I would like to fill the empty cells with a 0... how to address those empty cells? > > thanks for your help!In general, filling empty cells with zeros is ***very bad practice***. Zero is not the same thing as ``missing''. So basically: Don't do this! I don't care how badly you want to do it, or who told you to do it, just ***don't***. cheers, Rolf Turner