R help - Sep 2011 - Handling Missing Data

Here is my problem: I have saved ten variables as an R binary file (using save).
Now, when I load the file (using load), I have access to each of the variables
individually (as objects), but not to all ten variables as a set.  The reason
this is important is that I want to clean the data of all cases with missing
values before doing my analyses, and I can't see a way to do this without
referring to the entire data set as a whole.  I am sure I am missing something
fairly simple, but just can't see it.

TIA

David Cross
d.cross at tcu.edu
www.davidcross.us

On Sep 25, 2011, at 2:18 PM, David Cross wrote:
> Here is my problem: I have saved ten variables as an R binary file  
> (using save). Now, when I load the file (using load), I have access  
> to each of the variables individually (as objects), but not to all  
> ten variables as a set.  The reason this is important is that I want  
> to clean the data of all cases with missing values before doing my  
> analyses, and I can't see a way to do this without referring to the  
> entire data set as a whole.  I am sure I am missing something fairly  
> simple, but just can't see it.
>
That is what data.frames were designed to facilitate. It is hard to  
understand how you could not have come across that fundamental data  
structure. I think you need to do some more reading and homework.

-- 
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT