R help - Jul 2004 - replace values but different replacement length

Hi,

have anybody a hint/help how it's possible replace i.e.
the NA values  from BL02DATE with  non-Missing 
values from BLOCKED  and vice versa. 
Both variables are with an id  in a 188.249 rows data.frame and
my fr function didn't count the NA's.

Many thanks 
Christian

>>fr(BL02DATE)
       Count Prcnt
1     140660  84.6 
2      25589  15.4 
Total 166249 100.0
>>fr(BLOCKED)
       Count Prcnt
1     151982  85.4 
2      25976  14.6 
Total 177958 100.0
>>match02$BL02DATE[is.na(match02$BL02DATE)] <-  match02$BLOCKED
Warning message: number of items to replace is not a multiple of
replacement length

What are the lengths of

match02$BL02DATE[is.na(match02$BL02DATE)] and match02$BLOCKED?  

	  In particular, have you considered the following:  

match02$BL02DATE[is.na(match02$BL02DATE)] <- 
match02$BLOCKED[is.na(match02$BL02DATE)]


      hope this helps.  spencer graves

Christian Schulz wrote:
>Hi,
>
>have anybody a hint/help how it's possible replace i.e.
>the NA values  from BL02DATE with  non-Missing 
>values from BLOCKED  and vice versa. 
>Both variables are with an id  in a 188.249 rows data.frame and
>my fr function didn't count the NA's.
>
>Many thanks 
>Christian
>
>
>  
>
>>>fr(BL02DATE)
>>>      
>>>
>       Count Prcnt
>1     140660  84.6 
>2      25589  15.4 
>Total 166249 100.0
>
>  
>
>>>fr(BLOCKED)
>>>      
>>>
>       Count Prcnt
>1     151982  85.4 
>2      25976  14.6 
>Total 177958 100.0
>
>  
>
>>>match02$BL02DATE[is.na(match02$BL02DATE)] <-  match02$BLOCKED
>>>      
>>>
>Warning message: number of items to replace is not a multiple of
>replacement length
>
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