what does mean of imputation in r code example

Example: imputation in r

library(Hmisc)
impute(BostonHousing$ptratio, mean)  # replace with mean
impute(BostonHousing$ptratio, median)  # median
impute(BostonHousing$ptratio, 20)  # replace specific number
# or if you want to impute manually
BostonHousing$ptratio[is.na(BostonHousing$ptratio)] <- mean(BostonHousing$ptratio, na.rm = T)  # not run