Replace all NA with ""

[dmenne]

Is there a way to replace all NA with "" in pander/pandoc?

[daroczig]

Can you please show a use-case for such replacement? Do you mean replacing NA values in tables to empty cells or also e.g. numeric vectors etc?

[dmenne]

library(pander)
natab = data.frame(
  name=c("Dieter","daroczig",NA),
  size=c(1,NA,3),
  date=c(rep(date(),2),NA)
  )

pander(natab)

In many cases it looks better if the NA characters in the table where just empty.

[daroczig]

I've just pushed some updated resulting in the following demo:

> panderOptions('missing', '')
> pander(natab)

----------------------------------------
  name    size            date          
-------- ------ ------------------------
 Dieter    1    Wed Nov 19 00:34:13 2014

daroczig        Wed Nov 19 00:34:13 2014

           3                            
----------------------------------------

Please let me know how it works.

[dmenne]

Wow, perfect. Thanks a lot!

[plankter]

panderOptions('missing', '') is a very welcome addition. Could you tell please when version 0.5.2 will be available on CRAN?

[daroczig]

@plankter sorry for the long delay with the CRAN update -- I will do some final checks this weekend and push it there.