Replace NA values as default values based no the type of the variable

Source: R/na_operations.R

This function allows user to replace NA values based on type of the variable. For example NA in character columns can be replaced by "", logical NA values as FALSE, integer NA values as 0L and so on. User need to give the list of the default values what he or she want to be used in replacing.

replace_na_by_type(x, na_replace_list)

Arguments

replace_na_by_type

the list of default values for each type to be used

See also

Other help functions: get_classification_name(), get_na_vars(), get_var_types(), left_join_replace_na(), make_regex()

Examples

if (FALSE) {

## Give list of NA values
na_replace_list <- list(
  "logical"=FALSE,
  "character"="",
  "integer"=0L,
  "double"=0.0,
  "numeric"=0,
 # "Date"=lubridate::dmy("01-01-1900")
)
d <- left_join(sample_cohort,sample_regdata)
d %>%
  mutate_all(replace_na_by_type,na_replace_list)
}