VIM

7.0.0

Visualization and Imputation of Missing Values

23packages depend

253.6Kdownloads / year

55.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Matthias TemplFirst published 2012-10-1119 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides methods for imputation and visualization of missing values. It includes graphical tools to explore the amount, structure and patterns of missing and/or imputed values, supporting exploratory data analysis and helping to investigate potential missingness mechanisms (details in Alfons, Templ and Filzmoser, doi:10.1007/s11634-011-0102-y. The quality of imputations can be assessed visually using a wide range of univariate, bivariate and multivariate plots. The package further provides several imputation methods, including efficient implementations of k-nearest neighbour and hot-deck imputation (Kowarik and Templ 2013, doi:10.18637/jss.v074.i07, iterative robust model-based multiple imputation (Templ 2011, doi:10.1016/j.csda.2011.04.012; Templ 2023, doi:10.3390/math11122729), and machine learning–based approaches such as robust GAM-based multiple imputation (Templ 2024, doi:10.1007/s11222-024-10429-1) as well as gradient boosting (XGBoost) and transformer-based methods (Niederhametner et al., doi:10.1177/18747655251339401). General background and practical guidance on imputation are provided in the Springer book by Templ (2023) doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30073-8.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("VIM", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("statistikat/VIM")

Development version from statistikat/VIM. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-vim

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-VIM

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-VIM

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 13.6 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.02

55.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 94%
Documented parameters: 89%
Return-value docs: 60%
References docs: 54%

Downloads

253.6K

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Repository

GitHub ↗ statistikat/vim

92Stars

16Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

11Releases

789Commits

24Contributors

rimputation-methodsvisualizationhotdeckmodel-predictions

789 commits · Last activity 2026-07-20 · +1.1% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)

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Coverage (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

31 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 4.1.0colorspacegrid

Imports (24)

cargrDevicesrobustbasestatssp vcdnnete1071methodsRcpputilsgraphicslaeken rangerMASSxgboost data.table mlr3 mlr3pipelines R6 paradox mlr3tuning mlr3learners future

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (13)

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Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

23direct

2indirect

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 13,057 (65%)Rd 5,039 (25%)Vignettes 1,662 (8%)C++ 214 (1%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S36S4 generic2R62

Cyclomatic complexity: 5.0 median / 212 max
Test cases: 201 / 0.02 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

55%

Expression

55.0%

Tests / Examples

55.3% / 51% ex

Functions

123 50 exported

Complexity

18.7 avg / 212 max

Call network

123 nodes / 174 edges

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Lowest coverage

123 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
colSequenceHCL exp	3	0%
colormapMiss exp	39	0%
colormapMissLegend exp	15	0%
countInf exp	1	0%
evaluation exp	3	0%
gapMiss exp	3	0%

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 10

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
Animals_na	data.frame	28 × 2	–
brittleness	data.frame	23 × 3	–
chorizonDL	data.frame	606 × 110	–
colic	data.frame	300 × 31	in 2 packages
food	data.frame	16 × 21	–
pulplignin	data.frame	301 × 23	–
sleep	data.frame	62 × 10	–
tao	data.frame	736 × 8	–
toydataMiss	data.frame	100 × 12	–
wine	spec_tbl_df/tbl_df/tbl/data.frame	9,627 × 9	–

People & History

People (9)

Maintainer (1)

Matthias Templ

Author, Maintainer

Authors (8)

Matthias Templ

Author, Maintainer

Andreas Alfons

Author

Johannes Gussenbauer

Author · added in 7.0.0

Alexander Kowarik

Author

Nina Niederhametner

Author · added in 7.0.0

Wolfgang Rannetbauer

Author · added in 6.1.0

Eileen Vattheuer

Author · added in 7.0.0

Gregor de Cillia

Author · added in 6.0.0

Contributors (1)

Bernd Prantner

Contributor

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-10-11
Total releases: 19 / 14 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 449 KB / 16 files
Download size: 3.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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