diff --git a/processing/wikiproc/R/get_birthdate.R b/processing/wikiproc/R/get_birthdate.R
index a316ca2e2c40317d361184d837c1d732d36a602c..555c51ce9a102fdb415ca5e01b0920f01ad4d6cb 100644
--- a/processing/wikiproc/R/get_birthdate.R
+++ b/processing/wikiproc/R/get_birthdate.R
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ get_birthdate <- function(article) {
 
   } else {
 
-    # Return Null if there is no birthdate
-    return(NULL)
+    # Return NA if there is no birthdate
+    return(NA)
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/processing/wikiproc/R/get_birthplace.R b/processing/wikiproc/R/get_birthplace.R
index e0310bdad7882b1f3a404115eb1637fb0d9cd52b..70593babfc04e08c9555bb1e6fe184179ee67095 100644
--- a/processing/wikiproc/R/get_birthplace.R
+++ b/processing/wikiproc/R/get_birthplace.R
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 #' This script extracts Birthplace from physicist texts
 #' Try to get the infobox and extract the birthplace
-#' If there is no infobox, 0 will be returned as
+#' If there is no infobox, NA will be returned as
 #' birthplace is hard to extract from text
 #'
 #' @export
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ get_birthplace <- function(article) {
 
   # If there is no infobox we return 0
   if(!grepl("vcard", article)) {
-      return(0)
+      return(NA)
   }
 
   # Use infobox to get Birthplace
diff --git a/processing/wikiproc/R/get_no_of_spouses.R b/processing/wikiproc/R/get_no_of_spouses.R
index c0fb31eeec13d9e4724da79a6ec7a3a35253e40b..86ad18f1940c813c5051d2a3db5c5582bc6e7e81 100755
--- a/processing/wikiproc/R/get_no_of_spouses.R
+++ b/processing/wikiproc/R/get_no_of_spouses.R
@@ -15,20 +15,20 @@
 #' @examples
 #' \dontrun{
 #' articles <- get_data()
-#' 
+#'
 #' no.spouses <- get_no_of_spouses(articles$Text[54])
-#' 
-#' no,spouses 
+#'
+#' no.spouses
 #' }
 get_no_of_spouses <- function(article) {
-  
+
   # If there is no infobox we assume there were no spouses
   if(!grepl("vcard", article)) {
     return(0)
   }
-  
+
   infoBox <- get_infobox(article)
-  
+
   # Get the spouse field
   spouses <- infoBox[infoBox$Desc %like% "Spouse",]$Content
   # Remove everything in parentheses