10.9 Drop Missing Values

20220515 See Section 10.13 to replace missing values with an imputed (or guessed at) values, and Section 10.18 to replace missing values within a dataset with a nominated value.

To drop rows in a dataset that contain a missing value (NA) we can use tidyr::drop_na(). This can also be used within a pipeline.

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