R Observatory: Metrics for missMethods version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

missMethods

0.4.0Package record

Methods for Missing Data

4packages dependsuggested by 1

8Kdownloads / year

97.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tobias RockelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Supply functions for the creation and handling of missing data as well as tools to evaluate missing data methods. Nearly all possibilities of generating missing data discussed by Santos et al. (2019) doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2891360 and some additional are implemented. Functions are supplied to compare parameter estimates and imputed values to true values to evaluate missing data methods. Evaluations of these types are done, for example, by Cetin-Berber et al. (2019) doi:10.1177/0013164418805532 and Kim et al. (2005) doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bth499.

Changes in 0.4.0

New functions

count_NA() counts the number of missing values in a vector, data frame or matrix.

Improvements

apply_imputation() and friends now have an option to convert tibbles instead of throwing an error.

Fixes

delete_MAR_1_to_x() and delete_MNAR_1_to_x() now handle unordered factors as documented (thanks to Steve Roehrig for reporting).
delete_MAR_1_to_x() and delete_MNAR_1_to_x() now display the correct adjusted x value, if it is too high or too low (thanks to Steve Roehrig for reporting).

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apply_imputation() type rowwise now works for data frames (thanks to @khughitt for fixing).

Internal

delete_values() now only takes mech_type and derives mechanism.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("missMethods", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("torockel/missMethods")

Development version from torockel/missMethods. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-missmethods

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-missMethods

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-missMethods

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

Documentation signals are not tracked yet for this package.

Vignettes (1)

Generating-missing-values HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,004 · ~22/day · ~663/mo

missMethods Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

64730 days

1.6K90 days

8K1 year

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Also on164 r2u4 autocran66 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

torockel/missmethods ↗Account: torockel

7Stars

3Forks

1Open issues

1Open PRs

3Releases

247Commits

3Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 247 commits · Last activity 2022-09-16

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 60

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/torockel/missmethods on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (2)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2022-03-03

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing missMethods adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 1.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: mvtnorm 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

mvtnormstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

ggplot2 knitr lpSolve norm rmarkdown testthat (>= 2.1.0)tibble

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

MCARtest kssa Indicator QoLMiss

Suggests, most downloaded first

imputeGeneric

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Tobias Rockel

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

Releases (4)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.4.0Latest
record
2022-09-16 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
count_NA
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.0
record
2022-02-10 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.0
record
2020-07-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
impute_EM, impute_LS_adaptive, impute_LS_array, impute_LS_combined, impute_LS_gene, impute_expected_values, impute_hot_deck_in_classes, impute_in_classes
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.0
record
2020-04-01
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-04-01
Total releases: 4 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 149 KB

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citation("missMethods")

Format

Rockel, T. (2022). missMethods: Methods for Missing Data (Version 0.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.missMethods

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for missMethods version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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