[R] Running mean in R?

Warnes, Gregory R gregory_r_warnes at groton.pfizer.com
Tue Mar 5 13:47:47 CET 2002


> From: Reto Burkard [mailto:burkard at giub.unibe.ch]
> ...
> Is there an easy function available in R for calculating the running
> mean?

If you just need the mean calculated over all previous elements of a vector,
use

    cumsum(x)/seq(along=x)

Make sure and remove missing values first!

If, on the other hand, you want the mean calculated over a fixed number of
previous points use this function from the soon-to-be released version of
the gregmisc library:

############ running.R

"running" _ function( X, fun=mean, width=min(length(X),20),
                     allow.fewer=FALSE,...)
{
  n _ length(X)

  from  <-  sapply( (1:n) - width + 1, function(x) max(x,1) )
  to    <-  1:n

  elements  <- apply(cbind(from,to), 1,function(x) seq(x[1], x[2]) )

  if(is.matrix(elements))
    elements  <- as.data.frame(elements)

  funct _ function(which,what,fun,...) fun(what[which],...)

  Xvar _ sapply(elements, funct, what=X, fun=fun, ...)
  names(Xvar) <- paste(from,to,sep=":")

  if(!allow.fewer)
    Xvar[1:(width-1)]  <- NA

  return(Xvar)
}

############# help page

running               package:gregmisc               R Documentation

Apply a Function Over Adjacent Subsets of a Vector

Description:

     Applies a function over subsets of the vector formed by taking a
     fixed number of previous points.

Usage:

     running(X, fun=mean, width=min(length(X),20), allow.fewer=FALSE,...)

Arguments:

       X: data vector

     fun: function to apply. Default is `mean'

   width: integer giving the number of vector elements to include in
          the subsets.  Defaults to the lesser of the length of the
          data and 20 elements.

allow.fewer: Boolean indicating whether the function should be computed
          for initial subsets with fewer than `width' points

     ...: parameters to be passed to `fun'

Value:

     Vector containg the results of applying the function `fun' to the
     subsets.

Author(s):

     Gregory R. Warnes Gregory_R_Warnes\@groton.pfizer.com

Examples:

     running(1:20,width=5)

     plot(1:20, running(1:20,width=5))
     plot(1:20, running(1:20,width=5, allow.fewer=T))

     # plot running mean and central 2 standard deviation range
     # estimated by last 40 observations
     dat <- rnorm(500, sd=1 + (1:500)/500 )
     plot(dat)
     fun <- function(x,sign=1) mean(x) + sign * sqrt(var(x))
     lines(running(dat,width=50,fun=mean,allow=T),col="blue")
     lines(running(dat,width=50,fun=fun, sign=-1, allow=T),col="red")
     lines(running(dat,width=50,fun=fun, sign=1, allow=T),col="red")



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