consider adding option to include missing report for all variables

[ericpgreen]

The nhanes_2010 dataset has 1417 obs, but the summary table will indicate a total of 940 obs (complete cases) unless we specify na.rm=FALSE. The documentation says this about the na.rm parameter:

when set to FALSE it also shows how many missing values are in the data for each categorical variable being summarized

And that's what this does...

library(furniture)
library(tidyverse)
data("nhanes_2010")

nhanes_2010 %>%
  furniture::table1("Age Mean (SD)" = age,                
         "Health" = gen_health,
         "Sex" = gender,
         "Cancer" = cancer, 
         "Asthma" = asthma,
         test = TRUE,                            
         output = "html",
         na.rm = FALSE,
         total = TRUE,
         type = "condense")                      

We see that 155 obs are missing on gen_health. But I'm wondering if there could be an option to also show missing for all variables. This table gives me the impression that we're only missing data for the gen_health variable, but that's not the case.

table(nhanes_2010$cancer, useNA = "always") returns 344 missing

table(nhanes_2010$asthma, useNA = "always") returns 2 missing

There are no missing on the numeric variable age, but that would be interesting to know too.

[TysonStanley]

Yes, this is something I've been wanting to work on but haven't had the time yet. Your post will help push it toward the top of the priority list. For a short-term fix (bc it would be more straightforward with formatting), I was thinking of adding the missing for the continuous variables next to the name of the variable. Something like:

----------------------------------
                      Mean/SD
Var1 (missing = 34)   2.5 (3.2)
----------------------------------

What do you think?

[ericpgreen]

Thanks! That seems reasonable to me. It would make for a really long label if `Var1` is long, but certainly good in the short term.

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