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This (vectorized) function returns the first non-NA argument, similar to the SQL function COALESCE. If a vector or matrix is passed as first argument, the remaining arguments are recycled to generate a vector/matrix of the same dimension, and coalescing is done element by element.

Usage

coalesce.na(x, ...)

Arguments

x

The first value to coalesce.

...

Other values to coalesce.

Value

A vector of the same length as x.

Examples

coalesce.na(NA, -1)
#> `coalesce.na()` is deprecated, use `dplyr::coalesce()` instead.
#> [1] -1
coalesce.na(5, 3)
#> [1] 5
coalesce.na(c(1, NA, NA), c(NA, 2))
#> Warning: object length is not a multiple of first object length
#> [1]  1  2 NA
coalesce.na(matrix(c(NA, 1:3), nrow = 2))
#>      [,1] [,2]
#> [1,]   NA    2
#> [2,]    1    3
coalesce.na(NA)
#> [1] NA