[R] diagnostic information in glm. How about N of missing	observations?
    Roger D. Peng 
    rpeng at jhsph.edu
       
    Thu Dec 18 21:02:02 CET 2003
    
    
  
There should be an element of the fitted model object called `na.action' 
which (if you used the default na.omit()) should tell you which 
observations were dropped.
-roger
Paul Johnson wrote:
> I handed out some results from glm() and the students ask "how many 
> observations were dropped due to missing values"?
> 
> How would I know?
> In other stat programs, the results will typically include N and the 
> number dropped because of missings.  Without going back to R and 
> fiddling about to find the total number of rows in the dataframe, there 
> is no way to tell.  Somewhat inconvenient. Do you agree?
>
    
    
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