Hello You can use the following function, ###################################################### replace_missings <- function(x, replacement) { is_missings <- is.na(x) x[is_missings] <- replacement message(sum(is_missings), " missings replaced by the given value ", replacement) x } A <- c(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) B <- c(12,15,3,65,NA,12,NA,4,6,25,4) df <- data.frame(A,B) replace_missings(df, replacement = 0) ################################################# Regards Mayooran -----Original Message----- From: R-help <r-help-bounces at r-project.org<mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org>> On Behalf Of ani jaya Sent: Friday, 18 October 2019 2:43 PM To: r-help <r-help at r-project.org<mailto:r-help at r-project.org>> Subject: [R] NA value in list of data frame Dear R-Help, I have a list of data frame that I import from excel file using read.xlsx command. sheets <- openxlsx::getSheetNames("rainfall.xlsx") test <- lapply(sheets,function(i) read.xlsx("rainfall.xlsx", sheet=i, startRow=8, cols=1:2)) names(test) <- sprintf("%i", 1986:2015) And I got a data.frame with 365 rows and two columns contains date and rainfall data. There is a value in rainfall data that i want to change as NA (8888). So my question is how to change those value in all the data frame? test[1]$`1986` Date RR 1 01-01-1986 0 2 02-01-1986 7 3 03-01-1986 72 4 04-01-1986 4 5 05-01-1986 19 6 06-01-1986 4 7 07-01-1986 16 8 08-01-1986 21 9 09-01-1986 34 10 10-01-1986 72 11 11-01-1986 93 12 12-01-1986 178 13 13-01-1986 86 14 14-01-1986 11 15 15-01-1986 0 16 16-01-1986 31 17 17-01-1986 22 18 18-01-1986 18 19 19-01-1986 3 20 20-01-1986 0 21 21-01-1986 31 22 22-01-1986 46 23 23-01-1986 4 24 24-01-1986 40 25 25-01-1986 63 26 26-01-1986 125 27 27-01-1986 33 28 28-01-1986 44 29 29-01-1986 6 30 30-01-1986 0 31 31-01-1986 0 32 01-02-1986 2 33 02-02-1986 71 34 03-02-1986 8888 35 04-02-1986 0 36 05-02-1986 0 37 06-02-1986 56 38 07-02-1986 19 39 08-02-1986 3 40 09-02-1986 7 41 10-02-1986 24 42 11-02-1986 55 43 12-02-1986 0 44 13-02-1986 0 . . . Should I extract the data frame from the list one by one? Thank you for your help! Best, Saat M. (Sorry for the uncompleted email before). [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org<mailto:R-help at r-project.org> mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]