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To remove missing values in R, you can use the na.omit() function or the complete.cases() function.

The na.omit() function removes any rows that contain missing values from a data frame. For example, if you have a data frame named mydata and you want to remove any rows that contain missing values, you can use the following code:

The complete.cases() function returns a logical vector indicating which rows in a data frame contain complete cases, i.e., rows with no missing values. You can use this function to subset your data frame to include only the complete cases. For example, if you have a data frame named mydata and you want to create a new data frame that includes only the complete cases, you can use the following code:

This code creates a logical vector complete_cases that indicates which rows in mydata are complete cases. The second line creates a new data frame newdata that includes only the rows in mydata that are complete cases.

You can also use the is.na() function to find missing values in your data and then remove or replace them as needed. For example, if you have a data frame named mydata and you want to replace missing values with the mean of the non-missing values in each column, you can use the following code:

This code uses the mutate_all() function from the dplyr package to apply the ifelse() function to each column in mydata. The ifelse() function replaces any missing values with the mean of the non-missing values in each column. The na.rm = TRUE argument tells the mean() function to ignore missing values when calculating the mean.