removeImputation: Function to remove prior imputation.

In mkao006/sws_util: A suite of function to support the FAO new Statistical Working System.

Description

Function to remove prior imputation.

Usage

removeImputation(data, value, observationFlag, methodFlag,
  missingObservationFlag = "M", missingMethodFlag = "u",
  imputedFlag = "I")

Arguments

data	The data.table object containing the values.
value	The column name of data which contains the values for the variable to be modified.
observationFlag	The column name of the observation flag corresponding to value.
methodFlag	The column name of the method flag corresponding to value.
missingObservationFlag	The character value which is used to represent missing values in the observation flag. This value will be put in any column containing imputation data that is removed.
missingMethodFlag	The character value which is used to represent missing values in the method flag. This value will be put in any column containing imputation data that is removed.
imputedFlag	This character value specifies which observation flags correspond to imputed values in the data.

Details

Observations which have observationFlag == imputedFlag will be modified to missing. Thus, the value will be updated to NA, the observation flag will be updated to missingObservationFlag, and the method flag will be updated to missingMethodFlag.

Value

No value is returned. However, the object "data" which was passed to this function is modified.

mkao006/sws_util documentation built on May 23, 2019, 1:06 a.m.