[R] Simple Missing cases Function

[Philipp Pagel]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 03:29:08PM +0800, Tim Elwell-Sutton wrote:
> Dear all
> 
>  
> 
> I have written a function to perform a very simple but useful task which I
> do regularly. It is designed to show how many values are missing from each
> variable in a data.frame. In its current form it works but is slow because I
> have used several loops to achieve this simple task. 

Oh - and in case you ONLY wnt the number of NAs in each column this
should be pretty efficient:

lapply(foo, function(x){sum(is.na(x))})

cu
	Philipp

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Lehrstuhl für Genomorientierte Bioinformatik
Technische Universität München
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