datacarpentry / semester-biology

Forkable teaching materials for course on working with data in R
http://datacarpentry.org/semester-biology
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Skip `na.omit` and teach `is.na()` for dealing with nulls #863

Closed ethanwhite closed 4 years ago

ethanwhite commented 4 years ago

na.omit doesn't generalize well, doesn't work with databases, and doesn't add to fit well into the central concept of filtering.

ethanwhite commented 4 years ago

Implemented in 2020 run.