Find columns with all missing values

Question

I am writing a function, which needs a check on whether (and which!) column (variable) has all missing values (NA, ). The following is fr

Answer 1

In dplyr

ColNums_NotAllMissing <- function(df){ # helper function
  as.vector(which(colSums(is.na(df)) != nrow(df)))
}

df %>%
select(ColNums_NotAllMissing(.))

example:
x <- data.frame(x = c(NA, NA, NA), y = c(1, 2, NA), z = c(5, 6, 7))

x %>%
select(ColNums_NotAllMissing(.))

or, the other way around

Cols_AllMissing <- function(df){ # helper function
  as.vector(which(colSums(is.na(df)) == nrow(df)))
}


x %>%
  select(-Cols_AllMissing(.))