Counting non NAs in a data frame; getting answer as a vector
Say I have the following R data.frame ZZZ : ( ZZZ <- structure(list(n = c(1, 2, NA), m = c(6, NA, NA), o = c(7, 8, 8)), .Names = c("n", "m", "o"), row.names = c(NA, -3L), class = "data.frame") ) ## not run n m o 1 1 6 7 2 2 NA 8 3 NA NA 8 I want to know, in the form of a vector, how many non-NAs I've got. I want the answer available to me as: 2, 1, 3 When I use the command length(ZZZ) , I get 3 , which of course is the number of vectors in the data.frame , a valuable enough piece of information. I have other functions that operate on this data.frame and give me answers in the form of vectors,