Omit inf from row sum in R

Question

So I am trying to sum the rows of a matrix, and there are inf\'s within it. How do I sum the row, omitting the inf\'s?

Answer 1

I'd use apply and is.infinite in order to avoid replacing Inf values by NA as in @Hemmo's answer.

> set.seed(1)
> Mat <- matrix(sample(c(1:5, Inf), 50, TRUE), ncol=5)
> Mat # this is an example
      [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
 [1,]    2    2  Inf    3    5
 [2,]    3    2    2    4    4
 [3,]    4    5    4    3    5
 [4,]  Inf    3    1    2    4
 [5,]    2    5    2    5    4
 [6,]  Inf    3    3    5    5
 [7,]  Inf    5    1    5    1
 [8,]    4  Inf    3    1    3
 [9,]    4    3  Inf    5    5
[10,]    1    5    3    3    5
> apply(Mat, 1, function(x) sum(x[!is.infinite(x)]))
 [1] 12 15 21 10 18 16 12 11 17 17