fillDown: Convenience function to fill values down a column

In sherrillmix/dnar: Miscellaneous functions to deal with bioinformatic analyses

Convenience function to fill values down a column

Description

Takes a vector of values and fills any empty strings or NAs with the last non-empty value.

Usage

fillDown(x, emptyStrings = c(NA, ""), errorIfFirstEmpty = TRUE)

Arguments

x	a vector to be filled
emptyStrings	a vector of strings to be considered empty. Defaults to empty string and NA.
errorIfFirstEmpty	if TRUE then throw an error if the first entry is empty

Value

a vector of the same length as x with empty entries filled

Examples

fillDown(c(1:5,NA,NA,6,NA,7))
fillDown(c('a','c','d','Z',NA),'Z')

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