Drop columns based on NAs percentage in R

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Are you developing an automated exploration tool? Here we propose some alternatives to drop columns with high percentage of NAs.

In this previous tip we talk about BaseR vs Tidy & Purrr counting NAs performance.

Not leaving the pipeflow. How much does it cost?;) It depends on the NA distribution between features and its number, but not much that a few nanoseconds in small and big datasets

# library(microbenchmark) You can benchmark them in small and big datasets
library(tidyverse)

airquality %>% select_if(~mean(is.na(.)) < 0.2)

airquality %>% select(which(colMeans(is.na(.)) < 0.2))

airquality[lapply(airquality, function(x) mean(is.na(x))) < 0.2]


Soooo what’s your choice??


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