Fill Empty cells from the below row values in r

Question

I have data as below

col1  col2  col3


56    78    89

67     76   43

I want to fill the empty cells as below in r

col1  col2  col3
56    78    89        
56    78    89        
56    78    89
67    76    43    
67    76    43

Answer 1

We need to change the blank cells ( "" ) to NA and then use na.locf from zoo

library(zoo)
df1[] <- lapply(df1, function(x) as.numeric(na.locf(replace(x, x=="", NA), fromLast=TRUE)))
df1
#  col1 col2 col3
#1   56   78   89
#2   56   78   89
#3   56   78   89
#4   67   76   43
#5   67   76   43

data

df1 <- structure(list(col1 = c("", "", "56", "", "67"), col2 = c("", 
 "", "78", "", "76"), col3 = c("", "", "89", "", "43")), .Names = c("col1", 
 "col2", "col3"), row.names = c(NA, -5L), class = "data.frame")

Answer 2

Another solution with fill from tidyr :

library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)

df %>%
  mutate_all(as.numeric) %>%
  fill(names(.), .direction = "up") 

Result:

  col1 col2 col3
1   56   78   89
2   56   78   89
3   56   78   89
4   67   76   43
5   67   76   43

Data:

df = structure(list(col1 = c("", "", "56", "", "67"), col2 = c("", 
"", "78", "", "76"), col3 = c("", "", "89", "", "43")), .Names = c("col1", 
"col2", "col3"), row.names = c(NA, -5L), class = "data.frame")