title: Replacing value in multiple columns in data.table
body: <p>I have a large table with time series data (not in time series format) and I would like to replace certain values with a simple line of code. Below you will find a sample of the table. I would like to replace NA with nothing and 88888 with 0. Of course this can be done column by column with the help of a while-loop. However, I guess there is a simpler solution to this issue. Any suggestions?</p>
  
  <p>Sample dataset: </p>
  
  <pre><code>sample &lt;- structure(list(Period = c("01-12-08", "01-01-09", "01-02-09", "01-03-09",
   "01-04-09", "01-05-09", "01-06-09", "01-07-09", "01-08-09", "01-09-09", "01-10-09",
   "01-11-09", "01-12-09", "01-01-10", "01-02-10"), Serie1 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
   NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 6L, 88888L, 88888L, 88888L), Serie2 = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
   20L, 88888L, 88888L, 88888L, 88888L, 88888L, 88888L, NA, NA), Serie3 = c(NA, NA,
   NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 10L, 10L, 88888L, 88888L, 88888L, 88888L)), .Names =
   c("Period", "Serie1", "Serie2", "Serie3"), row.names = c(NA, -15L), class =
   c("data.table", "data.frame"))
  </code></pre>