[R] How to replace Inf by zero?

Sven Hohenstein hohenst at uni-potsdam.de
Fri May 29 17:02:00 CEST 2009


marlene marchena <marchenamarlene <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Hi R users,
> 
> Someone knows how to replace Infinite value by zero. I have a vector with
> some Inf value and I want to substitute these values by zero to get the mean
> of the components of the vector.
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Marlene.



Hi Marlene,

if you just want to calculate the mean of the non-infinite values, you can use
this statement:

mean(x[!is.infinite(x)])


Sven




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