R help - Apr 2008 - Deleting rows with missing data

Hi folks:
 
I have a data set v1, v2, ... v10.
Can anyone tell me how to create a new data set where the entire row is 
deleted if, say, v5, is missing, is NA on that row?

Thanks,
Charles

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Weidong Gu, 

Department of Medicine
University of Alabama, Birmingham
1900 University Blvd., Birmingham, Alabama 35294
Email: wgu at uab.edu
PH: (205)-975-9053


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Subject: [R] Deleting rows with missing data

Hi folks:
 
I have a data set v1, v2, ... v10.
Can anyone tell me how to create a new data set where the entire row is 
deleted if, say, v5, is missing, is NA on that row?

Thanks,
Charles

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On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Charles Vetterli
<cvetterli at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Hi folks:
>
> I have a data set v1, v2, ... v10.
> Can anyone tell me how to create a new data set where the entire row is
> deleted if, say, v5, is missing, is NA on that row?
>
> Thanks,
> Charles
>
> ______________________________________________
> 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.
>


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