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na.rm: Remove observations with missing values

Description

na.rm is similar to na.omit but allows to specify a list of variables to take into account.

Usage

na.rm(x, v = NULL)

Arguments

x

a data frame

v

a list of variables

Author

Joseph Larmarange <joseph@larmarange.net>

Details

If v is not specified, the result of na.rm will be the same as na.omit. If a list of variables is specified through v, only observations with a missing value (NA) for one of the specified variables will be removed from x. See examples.

See Also

Examples

Run this code
df <- data.frame(x = c(1, 2, 3), y = c(0, 10, NA), z = c("a", NA, "b"))
df
na.omit(df)
na.rm(df)
na.rm(df, c("x", "y"))
na.rm(df, "z")

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