stri_replace_na: Replace Missing Values in a Character Vector
Description
This function gives a convenient way to replace each missing (NA
) value with a given string.
Usage
stri_replace_na(str, replacement = "NA")
Arguments
|
character vector or an object coercible to |
|
single string |
Details
This function is roughly equivalent to str2 <- stri_enc_toutf8(str); str2[is.na(str2)] <- stri_enc_toutf8(replacement); str2
. It may be used, e.g., wherever the ‘plain R’ NA
handling is desired, see Examples.
Value
Returns a character vector.
Author(s)
Marek Gagolewski and other contributors
See Also
The official online manual of stringi at https://stringi.gagolewski.com/
Gagolewski M., stringi: Fast and portable character string processing in R, Journal of Statistical Software 103(2), 2022, 1-59, doi: 10.18637/jss.v103.i02
Other utils: stri_list2matrix()
, stri_na2empty()
, stri_remove_empty()
Examples
x <- c('test', NA)
stri_paste(x, 1:2) # 'test1' NA
## [1] "test1" NA
paste(x, 1:2) # 'test 1' 'NA 2'
## [1] "test 1" "NA 2"
stri_paste(stri_replace_na(x), 1:2, sep=' ') # 'test 1' 'NA 2'
## [1] "test 1" "NA 2"