R: Missing value gap statistics

gapMiss {VIM} | R Documentation

## Missing value gap statistics

### Description

Computes the average missing value gap of a vector.

### Usage

    gapMiss(x, what = mean)

### Arguments

`x` | a numeric vector
`what` | default is the arithmetic mean. One can include an own function that returns a vector of lenght 1 (e.g. median)

### Details

The length of each sequence of missing values (gap) in a vector is calculated and the mean gap is reported

### Value

The gap statistics

### Author(s)

Matthias Templ based on a suggestion and draft from Huang Tian Yuan.

### Examples

    v <- rnorm(20)
    v[3] <- NA
    v[6:9] <- NA
    v[13:17] <- NA
    v
    gapMiss(v)
    gapMiss(v, what = median)
    gapMiss(v, what = function(x) mean(x, trim = 0.1))
    gapMiss(v, what = var)

[Package VIM version 6.0.0 Index]