missiogram.ade {epade}

Missing Value Plot

Description

Overview of missing values in a data.frame

Usage

missiogram.ade(vars=NULL, vnames=NULL, data=NULL, ints=50, nvars=50,
               xlab="ID", ylab="Variables", main="Missing Value Plot",
               ylab2="N. Missings", col=NULL, tcol=NULL, bgcol=NULL, wall=0)

Arguments

vars

a vector of character strings with names of variables in data.frame

vnames

a vector of character strings with labels for the variables

data

a data.frame, it is possible to give only the data.frame.

ints

a integer giving number of intervals on x axis

nvars

number of variables in data.frame to be shown if only the data.frame ist given

xlab

a title for the x axis

ylab

a title for the y axis

main

an overall title for the plot

ylab2

a title for the second y axis

col

color of the symbols

tcol

color of the text in whole plot

bgcol

the background color for plot dekoration

wall

a number between 0 and 6 for selection the dekoration style of the plot.

Details

One, two or three points indicate respectively number of missing values in this section. More then 3 missing values will be shown with a semi-transparency surface over the section. No semi-transparency means, all the values are missing in this section.

Examples

data<-rnorm(1000)
data<-as.data.frame(data)
for(i in 1:20){
eval(parse(text=paste("data$var_", i, "<- rnorm(1000)", sep='')))
eval(parse(text=paste("data$var_", i,
"[round(runif(round(runif(1, 1, 100)), 1, 1000))]<-NA", sep='')))
}
missiogram.ade(data=data)