R: replacing NAs in a data.frame with values in the same position in another dataframe

Question

I have a dataframe with some NA values:

dfa <- data.frame(a=c(1,NA,3,4,5,NA),b=c(1,5,NA,NA,8,9),c=c(7,NA,NA,NA,2,NA))
dfa

I would like t

Answer 1

We can use Map from base R to do a columnwise comparison between the two datasets

dfa[] <- Map(function(x,y) {x[is.na(x)] <- y[is.na(x)]; x}, dfa, dfrepair)
dfa
#  a b c
#1 1 1 7
#2 3 5 7
#3 3 4 6
#4 4 3 5
#5 5 8 2
#6 7 9 3