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I did the knn imputation following this post: KNN imputation R packages

I met the error: Not sufficient complete cases for computing neighbors. Even when k = 1, this error occurs. 

data.imputed <- knnImputation(data, k=3)
Error in knnImputation(data) : 
Not sufficient complete cases for computing neighbors.

However the data should have sufficient complete cases. What's the problem?

dim(data)
[1]  779 1558
sum(complete.cases(data))
[1] 600
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I feel like this question would better belong on StackOverflow but I'll give it a go anyway:

paraphrasing the code for knnImputation (https://gist.github.com/tengpeng/fb6809717361319d8bde), you get that error message under the following conditions:

xcomplete <- data[setdiff(1:nrow(data),which(!complete.cases(data))),]
if (nrow(xcomplete) < k)
    stop("Not sufficient complete cases for computing neighbors.")

I suggest you check the value of nrow(xcomplete) is equal to 600.

EDIT: As described in PR#16648, complete.cases can lead to spurious errors when some columns have classes with length or is.na methods, for example "POSIXlt".

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