Literal translation...
aggregate( mydf$value
, mydf[ , "year_month", drop=FALSE ]
, function( x ) if ( all( is.na( x ) ) ) NA else sum( x, na.rm = TRUE )
)
On September 4, 2021 9:06:57 AM PDT, Stefano Sofia <stefano.sofia at
regione.marche.it> wrote:>Dear R-list users,
>I encountered a silly problem using aggregate, but I am not able to get rid
of it.
>I read the manual quite carefully, probaby not enough.
>Suppose I have the following data frame:
>
>mydf <- data.frame(year_month=rep(c("2003-12",
"2004-12", "2005-12"), 3), station_number=c(rep(1818,3),
rep(1819,3), rep(1820,3)), value=c(NA, NA, 20, NA, NA, 40, NA, 15, 50))
>
>I want aggregate the column value by the column year_month, but I need to
preserve rows with NA when all data are NA:
>
>aggregate(mydf$value, list(mydf$year_month), sum) gives
>1 2003-12 NA
>2 2004-12 NA
>3 2005-12 110
>
>aggregate(mydf$value, list(mydf$year_month), sum, na.rm=TRUE) gives
>1 2003-12 0
>2 2004-12 15
>3 2005-12 110
>
>but I need
>1 2003-12 NA
>2 2004-12 15
>3 2005-12 110
>
>How can I get it?
>Thank you for your attention and your help
>Stefano
>
>
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