Replace 0 with NA in R (Example) | Changing Zero in Data Frame & Vector
In this article, I’ll illustrate how to substitute 0 with NA in the R programming language.
The tutorial will contain this:
Let’s dive into it!
Creation of Example Data
We’ll use the following data frame for the example of this R programming tutorial:
data <- data.frame(x1 = c(2, 0, 7, 4, 0, 5), # Create example data x2 = c(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0)) data # Print example data # x1 x2 # 1 2 0 # 2 0 0 # 3 7 0 # 4 4 1 # 5 0 1 # 6 5 0 |
Our example data consists of six rows and two variables x1 and x2. Some of the values of these two rows are zero.
Example: Replace 0 with NA
Replacing 0 by NA in R is a simple task. We simply have to run the following R code:
data[data == 0] <- NA # Replace 0 with NA data # Print updated data # x1 x2 # 1 2 NA # 2 NA NA # 3 7 NA # 4 4 1 # 5 NA 1 # 6 5 NA |
As you can see based on the RStudio console output, we replaced all 0 values with NA values. Note that we could apply the same code to a vector or a single data frame column.
Video, Further Resources & Summary
Do you want to learn more about the manipulation of data in R? Then you could have a look at the following video of my YouTube channel. I show the R code of this tutorial in the video.
In addition, you might want to have a look at the other tutorials on https://statisticsglobe.com/. You can find a selection of tutorials below:
- How to Replace NA with 0
- What are
Values? - str_replace_na Function in R
- is.na Function
- Replace NA with Last Observed Value
- Remove All-NA Columns from Data Frame
- Count NA Values in R
- Find Missing Values
- The R Programming Language
This article explained how to change zeros in a data frame or vector to not available values in the R programming language. Tell me about it in the comments section, in case you have any further questions and/or comments.
