Subset dataframe based on number of observations in each column

Question

I have one problem would you like to give me a hand. I tried to come up with solution, but I do not have any idea how to work it out.

Please use this to recreate my dataframe.

structure(list(A1 = c(87L, 67L, 80L, 36L, 71L, 6L, 26L, 15L, 
14L, 46L, 19L, 93L, 5L, 94L), A2 = c(50L, NA, 73L, 58L, 47L, 
74L, 39L, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), A3 = c(NA, 38L, 10L, 41L, 
NA, 66L, NA, 7L, 29L, NA, 70L, 23L, 46L, 55L)), .Names = c("A1", 
"A2", "A3"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -14L))

I have this dataframe:

A1  A2  A3
87  50  NA
67  NA  38
80  73  10
36  58  41
71  47  NA
6   74  66
26  39  NA
15  NA  7
14  NA  29
46  NA  NA
19  NA  70
93  NA  23
5   NA  46
94  NA  55

What is the way to slice dataframe where we have greater or equal of 7 observations(count) per columns? So, the desired output look like this (we have obervation >= 7 per column):

A1  A3
87  NA
67  38
80  10
36  41
71  NA
6   66
26  NA
15  7
14  29
46  NA
19  70
93  23
5   46
94  55

I welcome any solution that can generalize to more columns.

Answer 1

Try

df1[, colSums(!is.na(df1)) >= 7]
#   A1 A3
#1  87 NA
#2  67 38
#3  80 10
#4  36 41
#5  71 NA
#6   6 66
#7  26 NA
#8  15  7
#9  14 29
#10 46 NA
#11 19 70
#12 93 23
#13  5 46
#14 94 55

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step by step

What you need to do first is to find out which values of your data are not missing.

!is.na(df1)

This returns a logical matrix

#        A1    A2    A3
# [1,] TRUE  TRUE FALSE
# [2,] TRUE FALSE  TRUE
# [3,] TRUE  TRUE  TRUE
# [4,] TRUE  TRUE  TRUE
# [5,] TRUE  TRUE FALSE
# [6,] TRUE  TRUE  TRUE
# [7,] TRUE  TRUE FALSE
# [8,] TRUE FALSE  TRUE
# [9,] TRUE FALSE  TRUE
#[10,] TRUE FALSE FALSE
#[11,] TRUE FALSE  TRUE
#[12,] TRUE FALSE  TRUE
#[13,] TRUE FALSE  TRUE
#[14,] TRUE FALSE  TRUE

Use colSums to find out how many observations per column are not missing

colSums(!is.na(df1))
#A1 A2 A3 
#14  6 10

Apply you condition "greater or equal of 7 observations(count) per columns"

colSums(!is.na(df1)) >= 7
#   A1    A2    A3 
# TRUE FALSE  TRUE

Finally, you need to use this vector to subset your data

df1[, colSums(!is.na(df1)) >= 7]

---

Turn this into a function if you need it regulary

almost_complete_cols <- function(data, min_obs) {
  data[, colSums(!is.na(data)) >= min_obs, drop = FALSE]
}

almost_complete_cols(df1, 7)