diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 39077d11..c51d25e2 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ Imports:
     mice,
     purrr,
     rlang,
+    scales,
     stats,
     stringr,
     tidyr,
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 5a976a40..8cf346e8 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ export(densityplot)
 export(ggmice)
 export(plot_corr)
 export(plot_flux)
+export(plot_miss)
 export(plot_pattern)
 export(plot_pred)
 export(plot_trace)
diff --git a/R/plot_miss.R b/R/plot_miss.R
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..46d5f7f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/R/plot_miss.R
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+#' Plot missingness in a dataset
+#'
+#' @param data An incomplete dataset of class `data.frame` or `matrix`.
+#' @param vrb String, vector, or unquoted expression with variable name(s), default is "all".
+#' @param grid Logical indicating whether borders should be present between tiles.
+#' @param ordered Logical indicating whether rows should be ordered according to their pattern.
+#' @param square  Logical indicating whether the plot tiles should be squares, defaults to squares.
+#'
+#' @return An object of class [ggplot2::ggplot].
+#'
+#' @examples
+#' plot_miss(mice::nhanes)
+#' @export
+
+plot_miss <-
+  function(data,
+           vrb = "all",
+           grid = FALSE,
+           square = FALSE,
+           ordered = FALSE) {
+    # input processing
+    if (is.matrix(data) && ncol(data) > 1) {
+      data <- as.data.frame(data)
+    }
+    verify_data(data, df = TRUE)
+    vrb <- substitute(vrb)
+    if (vrb[1] == "all") {
+      vrb <- names(data)
+    } else {
+      vrb <- names(dplyr::select(as.data.frame(data), {{vrb}}))
+    }
+    if (".x" %in% vrb || ".y" %in% vrb) {
+      cli::cli_abort(
+        c(
+          "The variable names '.x' and '.y' are used internally to produce the missing data pattern plot.",
+          "i" = "Please exclude or rename your variable(s)."
+        )
+      )
+    }
+    if (ordered) {
+      # extract md.pattern matrix
+      mdpat <- utils::head(mice::md.pattern(data, plot = FALSE), -1)
+      # save frequency of patterns
+      freq.pat <- rownames(mdpat) %>%
+        as.numeric()
+
+      na.mat <- mdpat %>%
+        as.data.frame() %>%
+        dplyr::select(-ncol(.data)) %>%
+        dplyr::mutate(nmis = freq.pat) %>%
+        tidyr::uncount(nmis)
+    } else {
+      # Create missingness indicator matrix
+      na.mat <-
+        purrr::map_df(data[, vrb], function(y)
+          as.numeric(!is.na(y)))
+    }
+    # extract pattern info
+    vrb <- colnames(na.mat)
+    rws <- nrow(na.mat)
+    cls <- ncol(na.mat)
+
+    # transform to long format
+    long <-
+      as.data.frame(cbind(.y = 1:rws, na.mat)) %>%
+      tidyr::pivot_longer(
+        cols = tidyselect::all_of(vrb),
+        names_to = "x",
+        values_to = ".where"
+      ) %>%
+      dplyr::mutate(.x = as.numeric(factor(
+        .data$x,
+        levels = vrb, ordered = TRUE
+      )),
+      .where = factor(
+        .data$.where,
+        levels = c(0, 1),
+        labels = c("missing", "observed")
+      ))
+    gg <-
+      ggplot2::ggplot(long,
+                      ggplot2::aes(.data$.x,
+                                   as.numeric(.data$.y),
+                                   fill = .data$.where)) +
+      ggplot2::scale_fill_manual(values = c(
+        "observed" = "#006CC2B3",
+        "missing" = "#B61A51B3"
+      )) +
+      ggplot2::scale_alpha_continuous(limits = c(0, 1), guide = "none") +
+      ggplot2::scale_x_continuous(breaks = 1:cls,
+                                  labels = vrb) +
+      ggplot2::scale_y_reverse(breaks = \(y) {
+        eb = scales::extended_breaks()(y)
+        eb[1] = min(long$.y)
+        eb[length(eb)] = max(long$.y)
+        eb
+      }) +
+      ggplot2::labs(
+        x = "Column name",
+        y = "Row number",
+        fill = "",
+        alpha = ""
+      ) +
+      theme_minimice()
+    # additional arguments
+    if (grid) {
+      gg <- gg + ggplot2::geom_tile(color = "black")
+    } else{
+      gg <- gg + ggplot2::geom_tile()
+    }
+    if (square) {
+      gg <- gg + ggplot2::coord_fixed(expand = FALSE)
+    } else {
+      gg <- gg + ggplot2::coord_cartesian(expand = FALSE)
+    }
+    if (ordered) {
+      gg <- gg +
+        ggplot2::theme(
+          axis.text.y = ggplot2::element_blank(),
+          axis.ticks.y = ggplot2::element_blank()
+        )
+    }
+    return(gg)
+  }
+
diff --git a/R/utils.R b/R/utils.R
index 2cb42595..2b35dba4 100644
--- a/R/utils.R
+++ b/R/utils.R
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@
 #' @return The result of calling `rhs(lhs)`.
 NULL
 
+# suppress undefined global functions or variables note
+utils::globalVariables(c(".id", ".imp", ".where", ".id", "where", "name", "value", "nmis"))
+
+# Alias a function with `foo <- function(...) pkgB::blah(...)`
+
 #' Utils function to validate data argument inputs
 #'
 #' @param data The input supplied to the 'data' argument.
diff --git a/man/plot_miss.Rd b/man/plot_miss.Rd
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..98264a8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/plot_miss.Rd
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+% Please edit documentation in R/plot_miss.R
+\name{plot_miss}
+\alias{plot_miss}
+\title{Plot missingness in a dataset}
+\usage{
+plot_miss(data, vrb = "all", grid = FALSE, square = FALSE, ordered = FALSE)
+}
+\arguments{
+\item{data}{An incomplete dataset of class \code{data.frame} or \code{matrix}.}
+
+\item{vrb}{String, vector, or unquoted expression with variable name(s), default is "all".}
+
+\item{grid}{Logical indicating whether borders should be present between tiles.}
+
+\item{square}{Logical indicating whether the plot tiles should be squares, defaults to squares.}
+
+\item{ordered}{Logical indicating whether rows should be ordered according to their pattern.}
+}
+\value{
+An object of class \link[ggplot2:ggplot]{ggplot2::ggplot}.
+}
+\description{
+Plot missingness in a dataset
+}
+\examples{
+plot_miss(mice::nhanes)
+}
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-plot_miss.R b/tests/testthat/test-plot_miss.R
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8f10f00e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-plot_miss.R
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# create test objects
+dat <- mice::nhanes
+
+# tests
+test_that("plot_miss produces plot", {
+  expect_s3_class(plot_miss(dat), "ggplot")
+  expect_s3_class(plot_miss(dat, grid = TRUE, ordered = TRUE, square = TRUE), "ggplot")
+  expect_s3_class(plot_miss(cbind(dat, "testvar" = NA)), "ggplot")
+})
+
+test_that("plot_miss works with different inputs", {
+  expect_s3_class(plot_miss(dat, c("age", "bmi")), "ggplot")
+  expect_s3_class(plot_miss(dat, c(age, bmi)), "ggplot")
+  expect_s3_class(plot_miss(data.frame(age = dat$age, testvar = NA)), "ggplot")
+  expect_s3_class(plot_miss(cbind(dat, "with space" = NA)), "ggplot")
+})
+
+
+test_that("plot_miss with incorrect argument(s)", {
+  expect_s3_class(plot_miss(na.omit(dat)), "ggplot")
+  expect_error(plot_miss("test"))
+  expect_error(plot_miss(dat, vrb = "test"))
+  expect_error(plot_miss(cbind(dat, .x = NA)))
+})