How to connect dots where there are missing values?

Question

lets take this example:

       test=c(1,5,NA,5,4,1,NA,3,3,5,4,2)

      plot(test,type=\"l\")

This will plot test but will not connect the

Answer 1

There isn't a way to ignore the missing values. You need to replace them with interpolated values.

# using base packages only
plot(approx(test, xout=seq_along(test))$y, type="l")
# or, using zoo
library(zoo)
plot(na.approx(test), type="l")