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ggmice

Visualizations for mice with ggplot2

Enhance a mice imputation workflow with visualizations for incomplete and/or imputed data. The ggmice functions produce ggplot objects which may be easily manipulated or extended. Use ggmice to inspect missing data, develop imputation models, evaluate algorithmic convergence, or compare observed versus imputed data.

Installation

You can install the latest ggmice release from CRAN with:

install.packages("ggmice")

Alternatively, you could install the development version of ggmice from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("amices/ggmice")

Example

Inspect the missing data in an incomplete dataset and subsequently evaluate the imputed data points against observed data. See the Get started vignette for an overview of all functionalities. Example data from mice, showing height (in cm) by age (in years).

# load packages
library(ggplot2)
library(mice)
library(ggmice)
# load some data
dat <- boys
# visualize the incomplete data
ggmice(dat, aes(age, hgt)) + geom_point()
# impute the incomplete data
imp <- mice(dat, m = 1, seed = 1)
# visualize the imputed data
ggmice(imp, aes(age, hgt)) + geom_point()

Acknowledgements

The ggmice package is developed with guidance and feedback from the Amices team. The ggmice hex is based on the ggplot2 and mice hex designs.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under ReCoDID grant agreement No 825746.

Code of Conduct

You are invited to join the improvement and development of ggmice. Please note that the project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

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Install

install.packages('ggmice')

Monthly Downloads

861

Version

0.1.1

License

GPL (>= 3)

Maintainer

Hanne Oberman

Last Published

July 30th, 2025

Functions in ggmice (0.1.1)

ggmice

Plot incomplete or imputed data
stripplot

Stripplot of observed and imputed data
bwplot

Box-and-whisker plot of observed and imputed data
theme_mice

densityplot

Densityplot of observed and imputed data
plot_miss

Plot missingness in a dataset
plot_pattern

Plot the missing data pattern of an incomplete dataset
plot_pred

Plot the predictor matrix of an imputation model
plot_trace

Plot the trace lines of the imputation algorithm
xyplot

Scatterplot of observed and imputed data
theme_minimice

plot_corr

Plot correlations between (incomplete) variables
%>%

Pipe operator
plot_flux

Plot the influx and outflux of a multivariate missing data pattern