Remove rows with all or some NAs (missing values) in data.frame

Question

I\'d like to remove the lines in this data frame that:

a) contain NAs across all columns. Below is my example data frame.

Answer 1

I am a synthesizer:). Here I combined the answers into one function:

#' keep rows that have a certain number (range) of NAs anywhere/somewhere and delete others
#' @param df a data frame
#' @param col restrict to the columns where you would like to search for NA; eg, 3, c(3), 2:5, "place", c("place","age")
#' \cr default is NULL, search for all columns
#' @param n integer or vector, 0, c(3,5), number/range of NAs allowed.
#' \cr If a number, the exact number of NAs kept
#' \cr Range includes both ends 3<=n<=5
#' \cr Range could be -Inf, Inf
#' @return returns a new df with rows that have NA(s) removed
#' @export
ez.na.keep = function(df, col=NULL, n=0){
    if (!is.null(col)) {
        # R converts a single row/col to a vector if the parameter col has only one col
        # see https://radfordneal.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/design-flaws-in-r-2-%E2%80%94-dropped-dimensions/#comments
        df.temp = df[,col,drop=FALSE]
    } else {
        df.temp = df
    }

    if (length(n)==1){
        if (n==0) {
            # simply call complete.cases which might be faster
            result = df[complete.cases(df.temp),]
        } else {
            # credit: http://stackoverflow.com/a/30461945/2292993
            log <- apply(df.temp, 2, is.na)
            logindex <- apply(log, 1, function(x) sum(x) == n)
            result = df[logindex, ]
        }
    }

    if (length(n)==2){
        min = n[1]; max = n[2]
        log <- apply(df.temp, 2, is.na)
        logindex <- apply(log, 1, function(x) {sum(x) >= min && sum(x) <= max})
        result = df[logindex, ]
    }

    return(result)
}