How to remove NaN in rows and columns of excel data set in matlab?

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Hi, I have the excel dataset of 50*48 matrix but it is having some NaN values also? I want to remove the NaN values from the matrix without loss of data.
Thank you in advance.
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jonas
jonas on 19 Sep 2018
Edited: jonas on 19 Sep 2018
An array must be rectangular and cannot have truly empty elements. Do you want to replace them by something? How do you envision your desired output?

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 19 Sep 2018
You can use isnan() to identify nan locations and then build a cell array with nulls there. If m is your matrix (untested code):
[rows, columns] = size(m);
nanLocations = isnan(m);
ca = cell(rows, columns); % Initialize cell array.
for row = 1 : rows
for col = 1 : columns
if ~nanLocations(row, col)
ca{row, col} = m(row, col); % Only fill cell if it's not nan.
end
end
end
xlswrite(filename, ca);
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Bryan Tan
Bryan Tan on 29 Sep 2020
Hello Image Analyst, is there a way to make every rows after NaN as row 1 and the average all the row 1?
I have 3 rows of NaN, but I have numbers after that. So after every 3rd NaN, I want to make it as row 1, so I can average each row 1.
For example the first data has no NaN before it:
1
2
3
NaN
NaN
NaN
4
5
6
10
NaN
NaN
NaN
7
8
9
So the output average should be:
4
5
6
10
Thank you. My discussion topic is here:
https://au.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/601879-averaging-and-interpolating-random-number-of-rows-of-data
Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 29 Sep 2020
Yes, try this:
badRows = isnan(ca{:, 1}); % Find nans in column 1.
ca = ca(~badRows, :); % Extract all rows except the bad rows.

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