How do I replace NA values with zeros in an R dataframe?

Question

I have a data frame and some columns have NA values.

How do I replace these NA values with zeroes?

Answer 1

With dplyr 0.5.0, you can use coalesce function which can be easily integrated into %>% pipeline by doing coalesce(vec, 0). This replaces all NAs in vec with 0:

Say we have a data frame with NAs:

library(dplyr)
df <- data.frame(v = c(1, 2, 3, NA, 5, 6, 8))

df
#    v
# 1  1
# 2  2
# 3  3
# 4 NA
# 5  5
# 6  6
# 7  8

df %>% mutate(v = coalesce(v, 0))
#   v
# 1 1
# 2 2
# 3 3
# 4 0
# 5 5
# 6 6
# 7 8