Fastest way to detect if vector has at least 1 NA?

Question

What is the fastest way to detect if a vector has at least 1 NA in R? I\'ve been using:

sum( is.na( data ) ) > 0

But that

Answer 1

Here are some actual times from my (slow) machine for some of the various methods discussed so far:

x <- runif(1e7)
x[1e4] <- NA

system.time(sum(is.na(x)) > 0)
> system.time(sum(is.na(x)) > 0)
   user  system elapsed 
  0.065   0.001   0.065 

system.time(any(is.na(x)))  
> system.time(any(is.na(x)))
   user  system elapsed 
  0.035   0.000   0.034

system.time(match(NA,x)) 
> system.time(match(NA,x))
  user  system elapsed 
 1.824   0.112   1.918

system.time(NA %in% x) 
> system.time(NA %in% x)
  user  system elapsed 
 1.828   0.115   1.925 

system.time(which(is.na(x) == TRUE))
> system.time(which(is.na(x) == TRUE))
  user  system elapsed 
 0.099   0.029   0.127

It's not surprising that match and %in% are similar, since %in% is implemented using match.