R 4 Quick Syntax Reference: A Pocket Guide to the Language, API's and Library

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M. TollefsonR 4 Quick Syntax Referencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7924-3_17

17. Tricks of the Trade

Margot Tollefson¹  

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This book would not be complete without advice on some tricky parts of R. When it seems that everything is set up right, but things still do not do what you expect and you do not know why, this chapter can help. This chapter also describes some not-so-obvious parts of R. Also, we give some new parts of R.

Value Substitution: NA, NaN, Inf, and –Inf

This section has to do with missing data (i.e., NAs) or illegal elements (i.e., NaNs, Infs, or –Infs). ...