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impute-noncommutative: non-commutative imputation

Impute missing values using non-commutative functions, i.e. where the order matters.

Description

non-commutative imputation

Impute missing values using non-commutative functions, i.e. where the order matters.

Usage

na.cummax(.x, ...)

na.cummin(.x, ...)

na.cumsum(.x, ...)

na.cumprod(.x, ...)

Arguments

.x

atomic-vector with 0 or more missing values

...

additional arguments

Details

Non-commutative imputations functions assume that .x is in the proper order since the values depend on order. Usually, this is relevant then .x is part of a table.

These functions replaces NA values with the cummulative max of .x. Internally, fun(.x, na.rm=TRUE, ... ) is used. If the function cannot be calculated (e.g. .x isn't numeric) then x is returned unchanged with a warning.

Use of na.cumsum and na.cumprod are dangerous since they omit missing values that may contribute to

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