data_only = TRUE
to control if only the imputed data should be returned (default), or an object of class “missRanger”. This object contains the imputed data and infos like OOB prediction errors, fixing #28. The value FALSE
will later becoming the default in {missRanger 3.0.0}. This will be announced via deprecation cycle.keep_forests = FALSE
. Should the random forests of the best iteration (the one that generated the final imputed data) be added to the “missRanger” object? Note that this will use a lot of memory. Only relevant if data_only = FALSE
. This solves #54.missRanger()
now works with syntactically wrong variable names like “1bad:variable”. This solves an old issue, recently popping up in this new issue.missRanger()
now works with any number of features, as long as the formula is left at its default, i.e., . ~ .
. This solves this issue.ranger()
is now called via the x/y interface, not the formula interface anymore.importFrom
to ::
code styleMaintenance release,
mtry = function(m) max(1, m %/% 3)
. Keep in mind that missRanger()
might use a growing set of covariables in the first iteration of the process, so passing mtry = 2
might result in an error.This is a summary of all changes since version 1.x.x.
missRanger
now also imputes and uses logical variables, character variables and further variables of mode numeric like dates and times.
Added formula interface to specify which variables to impute (those on the left hand side) and those used to do so (those on the right hand side). Here some (pseudo) examples:
. ~ .
(default): Use all variables to impute all variables. Note that only those with missing values will be imputed. Variables without missings will only be used to impute others.
. ~ . - ID
: Use all variables except ID
to impute all missing values.
Species ~ Sepal.Width
: Use Sepal.Width
to impute Species
. Only works if Sepal.Width
does not contain missing values. (Add it to the right hand side if it does.)
Species + Sepal.Length ~ Species + Petal.Length
: Use Species
and Petal.Length
to impute Species
and Sepal.Length
. Only works if Petal.Length
does not contain missing values because it does not appear on the left hand side and is therefore not imputed itself.
. ~ 1
: Univariate imputation for all relevant columns (as nothing is selected on the right hand side).
The first argument of generateNA
is called x
instead of data
in consistency with imputeUnivariate
.
imputeUnivariate
now also works for data frames and matrices.
In PMM mode, missRanger
relies on OOB predictions. The smaller the value of num.trees
, the higher the risk of missing OOB predictions, which caused an error in PMM. Now, pmm
allows for missing values in xtrain
or ytrain
. Thus, the algorithm will even work with num.trees = 1
. This will be useful to impute large data sets with PMM.
The function imputeUnivariate
has received a seed
argument.
The function imputeUnivariate
has received a v
argument, specifying columns to impute.
The function generateNA
offers now the possibility to use different proportions of missings for each column.
If verbose
is not 0, then missRanger
will show which variables will be imputed in which order and which variables will be used for imputation.
returnOOB
is now effectively controlling if out-of-bag errors are attached as attribute “oob” to the resulting data frame or not. So far, it was always attached.