This seems to work fine without the na.strings. Can you include the
data that you were reading:
> x <- read.table(textConnection("1,2,3,4
+ 5,,6,NA
+ ,7,NA,8
+ ,,NA,9"), sep=',')> closeAllConnections()
> x
V1 V2 V3 V4
1 1 2 3 4
2 5 NA 6 NA
3 NA 7 NA 8
4 NA NA NA 9
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:37 AM, kayj <kjaja27 at yahoo.com>
wrote:>
>
>
> I have a file where the missings are coded as NA or blank. how can I tell R
> to read the data set and to consider the missings NA or a blank.
>
> I tried the following
>
> data<-read.table("data.txt", sep='\t', header=T,
na.strings=c("NA",""))
>
> is it correct? I am new to R and I am not sure if R is condisering the
> blanks as missings in the above.
>
> Thanks for the help
>
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