Dealing with missing values
Missing values are often encoded differently. In some files, -9999 mean missing values and in others, they may be encoded as #$##. You can use the na.strings argument to tell fread() which values should be treated as missing values.
You will be importing the following file:
id,name,val1,val2
9002019291929192,Robert Whitaker,,44
9200129401349301 ,Elisa Waters,289,##
9200149429834456 , Karla Schmidt,458,29
The missing values are encoded as "##". Note that fread() handles an empty field ,, by default as NA.
Cet exercice fait partie du cours
Data Manipulation with data.table in R
Instructions
Import the file sample.csv properly to ensure that "##" is treated as a missing values and is imported as NA.
Exercice interactif pratique
Essayez cet exercice en complétant cet exemple de code.
# Import the file using na.strings
missing_values <- ___
missing_values