How to label NA values to missing?

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Hello! I have a variable for ethnicity in my dataset that is a factor. For those with no ethnicity recorded R automatically assigns NA. I would like to label this NA to "missing" and create a new variable in the dataset.

I have tried forcats and ifelse but none of these work.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

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maybe try forcats again ?

f1 <- factor(c("a", "a", NA, NA, "a", "b", NA, "c", "a", "c", "b"))
table(f1,useNA = "always")

f2 <- forcats::fct_explicit_na(f1)
table(f2,useNA = "always")
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