stri_replace_na {stringi} | R Documentation |
This function offers a convenient way to replace each NA
in a character vector with a given string.
stri_replace_na(str, replacement = "NA")
str |
character vector or an object coercible to |
replacement |
single string |
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 “plain R” NA
handling is
desired, see Examples.
Returns a character vector.
Other search_replace: stri_replace_all
,
stri_trim_both
,
stringi-search
x <- c('test', NA) stri_paste(x, 1:2) # "test1" NA paste(x, 1:2) # "test 1" "NA 2" stri_paste(stri_replace_na(x), 1:2, sep=' ') # "test 1" "NA 2"