How to select rows by group with the minimum value and containing NAs in R

Question

Here is an example:

set.seed(123)    
data<-data.frame(X=rep(letters[1:3], each=4),Y=sample(1:12,12),Z=sample(1:100, 12))
data[data==3]<-NA
         


        

Answer 1

Using subset to for each letter may be this can help

data<-data.frame(X=rep(letters[1:3], each=4),Y=sample(1:12,12))
dataA <- subset(data, data$X=="a")
min(dataA$Y, na.rm=TRUE)