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This is indeed a good in-built imputation solution for applications where imputation can be run on larger prediction set (>> 1 sample). From the randomForest documentation of na.roughfix: "A completed data matrix or data frame. For numeric variables, NAs are replaced with column medians. For factor variables, NAs are replaced with the most frequent levels (breaking ties at random). If object contains no NAs, it is returned unaltered."
