[R] NaN, Inf to NA

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11-05-27 4:27 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> Aha! Thank you very much for that clarification! It would be much more user
> friendly if R generated a NotImplementedError or something similar. The 'garbage
> results' are pretty misleading, esp. to a novice.

I think that's a good idea.  The default methods are documented to work 
on atomic vectors; dataframes are not atomic vectors, so it would be 
reasonable to generate an error.  (See ?is.atomic for a definition of 
atomic vectors.)

I'll see if this causes a lot of trouble...

Duncan Murdoch


>
> I wanted to recode every NaN and Inf value of an entire data.frame to NA. The
> data.frame also includes character variables. So the following might work (?)
> (Can't test it here)
>
> ditch<- function(x) ifelse(is.infinite(x) | is.nan(x), NA, x)
> df<- apply(df, 2, ditch)
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: William Dunlap<wdunlap at tibco.com>
>
> Cc: R Mailing List<r-help at r-project.org>
> Sent: Fri, May 27, 2011 12:57:01 AM
> Subject: RE: [R] NaN, Inf to NA
>
> I think the source of the OP's problem is that
> while things like df>30 and is.na(df) return
> a logical matrix with the dimensions of the
> data.frame df, both is.infinite(df) and is.nan(df)
> return a logical vector as long as the number
> of columns of df.  (`>` and is.na have data.frame
> methods but is.infinite and is.nan do not: the latter
> give garbage results for data.frames.)
>
> Bill Dunlap
> Spotfire, TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
>> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Marc Schwartz
>> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 2:15 PM
>> To: Albert-Jan Roskam
>> Cc: R Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [R] NaN, Inf to NA
>>
>> On May 26, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I want to recode all Inf and NaN values to NA, but I;m
>> surprised to see the
>>> result of the following code. Could anybody enlighten me
>> about this?
>>>
>>>> df<- data.frame(a=c(NA, NaN, Inf, 1:3))
>>>> df[is.infinite(df) | is.nan(df)]<- NA
>>>> df
>>>     a
>>> 1  NA
>>> 2 NaN
>>> 3 Inf
>>> 4   1
>>> 5   2
>>> 6   3
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Cheers!!
>>> Albert-Jan
>>
>>
>> The canonical way is to use is.na() to assign the NA value
>> based upon a condition. See ?is.na for more information.
>>
>> is.na(df$a)<- !is.finite(df$a)
>>
>>> df
>>     a
>> 1 NA
>> 2 NA
>> 3 NA
>> 4  1
>> 5  2
>> 6  3
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Marc Schwartz
>>
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