Sum ignoring NAs - To be deprecated

Description

Will sum values returning NA only if all values are NA, otherise will ignore

Usage

sum_ignore_NA(...)

Arguments

…	numbers or vectors to be summed. Must be type logical or numeric.

Details

this function will provide vectorized sums with NAs ignored unless only NAs are present

Value

a numeric vector of the same length as the arguments

Examples

library("CIDAtools")

# ignores NA
sum_ignore_NA(2, 3, NA)

[1] 5

# returns NA if all values are NA
sum_ignore_NA(NA, NA, NA)

[1] NA

# returns vectorized sums

x <- c(1, 2, NA)
y <- c(1:3)
sum_xy <- sum_ignore_NA(x, y)
data.frame(x, y, sum_xy)

   x y sum_xy
1  1 1      2
2  2 2      4
3 NA 3      3

x <- c(1, 2, NA)
y <- c(1, 2, NA)
sum_xy <- sum_ignore_NA(x, y)
data.frame(x, y, sum_xy)

   x  y sum_xy
1  1  1      2
2  2  2      4
3 NA NA     NA