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kutils (version 1.69)

deleteBogusColumns: Remove columns in which the proportion of missing data exceeds a threshold.

Description

This is a column version of deleteBogusRows. Use the pm argument to set the proportion of missing required before a column is flagged for deletion

Usage

deleteBogusColumns(dframe, pm = 0.9, drop = FALSE, verbose = TRUE,
  n = 25)

Arguments

dframe

A data frame or matrix

pm

"proportion missing data" to be tolerated.

drop

Default FALSE: if data frame result is reduced to one column, should R's default drop behavior "demote" this to a column vector.

verbose

Default TRUE. Should a report be printed summarizing information to be delted?

n

Default 25: limit on number of values to print in diagnostic output. If set to NULL or NA, then all of the column values will be printed for the bogus rows.

Value

a data frame, invisibly

See Also

deleteBogusRows