How to filter data without losing NA rows using dplyr

Question

How to subset data in R without losing NA rows?

The post above subsets using logical indexing. Is there a way to do it in dplyr?

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Answer 1

If you want to keep NAs created by the filter condition you can simply turn the condition NAs into TRUEs using replace_na from tidyr.

a <- data.frame(col = c("hello", NA, "str"))
a %>% filter((col != "str") %>% replace_na(TRUE))