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Try using complete.cases . 915 Remove rows with all or some NAs
(missing values) in data.frame

26 > df <- data.frame(col1 = c(1, 2, 3, NA, 5), col2 = c('A', 'B', NA, 'C', 'D'), Related
col3 = c(9, NaN, 8, 7, 6))
> df
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2 2 B NaN 418 Check existence of directory and create if
3 3 <NA> 8 doesn't exist
4 NA C 7
5 5 D 6 915 Remove rows with all or some NAs
> df[complete.cases(df), ] (missing values) in data.frame
col1 col2 col3
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na.omit works:

9 na.omit(df)
## team_id athlete_id GP tm_STL tm_TOV player_WS
## 2 13304 75048 1 2 8 0.28563827
## 5 13304 75053 1 2 8 0.03861989
## 6 13304 75060 1 2 8 -0.15530707

It's a little more convenient than complete.cases if you're piping, as it doesn't require another
function to subset like dplyr::filter , magrittr::extract , or [ .

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