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Gracie523
Gracie523

Reputation: 31

Using conditional selection to create a subset of data

I have a dataset called dietox which has missing values (NA) for the Feed variable. I need to use conditional selection to create a subset of the data for which the rows with missing values are deleted.

The code I tried was:

dietox[!is.NA[dietox$Feed, ]

... but am not sure if that is right to create a subset. 

dput(head(dietox)) 

dietox <- structure(list(Weight = c(26.5, 27.59999, 36.5, 40.29999, 49.09998, 
             55.39999), Feed = c(NA, 5.200005, 17.6, 28.5, 45.200001, 56.900002 ),
             Time = 1:6, Pig = c(4601L, 4601L, 4601L, 4601L, 4601L, 4601L ),
             Evit = c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L), Cu = c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L),
             Litter = c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L)),
            .Names = c("Weight", "Feed", "Time", "Pig", "Evit", "Cu", "Litter"),
            row.names = c(NA, 6L), class = "data.frame")

Upvotes: 1

Views: 71

Answers (1)

C. Braun
C. Braun

Reputation: 5201

You have the right idea, but is.na is a function and so needs to be used with parenthesis. 

dietox[!is.na(dietox$Feed), ]

Upvotes: 3

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