On Apr 3, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Tyler Rinker wrote:
>
> Quick question,
>
> I tried to find a function in available packages to find NA's for an
> entire data set (or single variables) and report the row of missing
> values (NA's for each column). I searched the typical routes
> through the blogs and the help manuals for 15 minutes. Rather than
> spend any more time searching I created my own function to do this
> (probably in less time than it would have taken me to find the
> function).
>
> Now I still have the same question: Is this function (NAhunter I
> call it) already in existence? If so please direct me (because I'm
> sure they've written better code more efficiently). I highly doubt
> I'm this first person to want to find all the missing values in a
> data set so I assume there is a function for it but I just didn't
> spend enough time looking. If there is no existing function (big if
> here), is this something people feel is worthwhile for me to put
> into a package of some sort?
I'm not sure that it would have occurred to people to include it in a
package. Consider:
getNa <- function(dfrm) lapply(dfrm, function(x) which(is.na(x) ) )
> cities
long lat city pop
1 -58.38194 -34.59972 Buenos Aires NA
2 14.25000 40.83333 <NA> NA
> getNa(cities)
$long
integer(0)
$lat
integer(0)
$city
[1] 2
$pop
[1] 1 2
There are several packages with functions by the name `describe` that
do most or all of rest of what you have proposed. I happen to use
Harrell's Hmisc but the other versions should also be reviewed if you
want to avoid re-inventing the wheel.
--
David.
>
> Tyler
>
> Here's the code:
>
> NAhunter<-function(dataset)
> {
> find.NA<-function(variable)
> {
> if(is.numeric(variable)){
> n<-length(variable)
> mean<-mean(variable, na.rm=T)
> median<-median(variable, na.rm=T)
> sd<-sd(variable, na.rm=T)
> NAs<-is.na(variable)
> total.NA<-sum(NAs)
> percent.missing<-total.NA/n
> descriptives<-data.frame(n,mean,median,sd,total.NA,percent.missing)
> rownames(descriptives)<-c(" ")
> Case.Number<-1:n
> Missing.Values<-ifelse(NAs>0,"Missing Value"," ")
> missing.value<-data.frame(Case.Number,Missing.Values)
> missing.values<-missing.value[ which(Missing.Values=='Missing
> Value'),]
> list("NUMERIC
DATA","DESCRIPTIVES"=t(descriptives),"CASE # OF
> MISSING VALUES"=missing.values[,1])
> }
> else{
> n<-length(variable)
> NAs<-is.na(variable)
> total.NA<-sum(NAs)
> percent.missing<-total.NA/n
> descriptives<-data.frame(n,total.NA,percent.missing)
> rownames(descriptives)<-c(" ")
> Case.Number<-1:n
> Missing.Values<-ifelse(NAs>0,"Missing Value"," ")
> missing.value<-data.frame(Case.Number,Missing.Values)
> missing.values<-missing.value[ which(Missing.Values=='Missing
> Value'),]
> list("CATEGORICAL
DATA","DESCRIPTIVES"=t(descriptives),"CASE # OF
> MISSING VALUES"=missing.values[,1])
> }
> }
> dataset<-data.frame(dataset)
> options(scipen=100)
> options(digits=2)
> lapply(dataset,find.NA)
> }
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