[R] replacing zeros with above/below numbers ?

[Pascal Oettli]

Hello,

If you mean replacing 0 by the average of non-zero values, I guess one way is:

> a[a==0] <- mean(a[a!=0])

Maybe some senior user might correct it.

Regards,
Pascal



On 6 February 2014 12:05, ce <zadig_1 at excite.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
>  My data is :
>
> a <- c(0.9721,0.9722,0.9730,0.9723,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.9706,0.9698,0.0,0.9710,0.9699)
>
> I want to replace zeros with  average of before and after values of them.  But sometimes there is one zero sometimes more than one. What is the most elegant way to do this ?
> Thanks a lot
>
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