NA {base}R Documentation

Not Available / ``Missing'' Values

Description

NA is a logical constant of length 1 which contains a missing value indicator. NA can be freely coerced to any other vector type.

The generic function is.na returns a logical vector of the same ``form'' as its argument x, containing TRUE for those elements marked NA or NaN (!) and FALSE otherwise. dim, dimnames and names attributes are preserved.

Usage

NA
is.na(x)
is.na.data.frame(x)

Details

is.na(x) works elementwise when x is a list.

The method dispatching is C-internal, rather than via UseMethod.

See Also

NaN, is.nan, etc. and the utility function complete.cases.

na.action, na.omit, na.fail on how methods can be tuned to deal with missing values.

Examples

is.na(c(1,NA))       #> F TRUE
is.na(paste(c(1,NA)))#> F FALSE


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