[R] subsetting, aggregating and zoo

antonio rodriguez antonio.raju at gmail.com
Sun Oct 29 20:07:54 CET 2006


Gabor Grothendieck escribió:
> Sorry, the line starting idx <- should have time(z) in place of z.
> That is,
>
> year <- as.Date(c(
> "1988-01-13", "1988-01-14", "1988-01-16", "1988-01-20", "1988-01-21",
> "1988-01-22", "1988-01-25", "1988-01-26", "1988-01-27", "1988-01-28"))
>
> x <- c(
> 7.973946,  9.933518,  7.978227,  7.512960,  6.641862,  5.667780,  
> 5.721358,
> 6.863729,   9.600000,   9.049846)
>
> z <- zoo(x, year)
>
> idx <- cumsum(c(1, diff(time(z)) != 1))
>
> starts <- time(z)[match(idx, idx)]
> ends <- time(z)[cumsum(table(idx))[idx]]
>
> aggregate(z, starts, mean)
>
>
> By the way, dput(v, control = "all") will output variable v
> in a form easily pastable by someone else into their session.

Thanks Gabor! Now it's OK (nice the output of dput. I was reluctant to 
paste all data because is 6575 days long!)

Best regards

Antonio


>
> On 10/29/06, antonio rodriguez <antonio.raju at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Gabor Grothendieck escribió:
>> > Try this:
>> >
>> > # test data
>> > x <- c(1:4, 6:8, 10:14)
>> > z <- zoo(x, as.Date(x))
>> >
>> > # idx is 1 for first run, 2 for second run, etc.
>> > idx <- cumsum(c(1, diff(z) != 1))
>> >
>> > # starts replaces each time with the start time of that run
>> > # ends is similar but for ends
>> > starts <- time(z)[match(idx, idx)]
>> > ends <- time(z)[cumsum(table(idx))[idx]]
>> >
>> > # average over each run using the time of the end of run for the 
>> result
>> > # replace ends with starts if that is preferred
>> > aggregate(z, ends, mean)
>> >
>> Yes it's OK in your example, but when I try to do it with my data I
>> don't get the same figure.
>>
>> is.zoo(z)
>> [1]TRUE
>>
>> atributes(z)
>> $index
>>   [1] "1988-01-13" "1988-01-14" "1988-01-16" "1988-01-20" "1988-01-21"
>> .................................................................................................. 
>>
>> [3861] "2005-12-20" "2005-12-23" "2005-12-24" "2005-12-25" "2005-12-26"
>> [3866] "2005-12-27" "2005-12-30"
>>
>> $class
>> [1] "zoo"
>>
>> z[1:10]
>>
>> 1988-01-13 1988-01-14 1988-01-16 1988-01-20 1988-01-21 1988-01-22 
>> 1988-01-25
>>  7.973946   9.933518   7.978227   7.512960   6.641862   5.667780   
>> 5.721358
>> 1988-01-26 1988-01-27 1988-01-28
>>  6.863729   9.600000   9.049846
>>
>> If I follow your instructions,
>>
>> idx <- cumsum(c(1, diff(z) != 1))
>> starts <- time(z)[match(idx, idx)]
>> ends <- time(z)[cumsum(table(idx))[idx]]
>>
>> s1 <- aggregate(z, starts, mean)
>> s1[1:10]
>>
>> 1988-01-13 1988-01-14 1988-01-16 1988-01-20 1988-01-21 1988-01-22 
>> 1988-01-25
>>  7.973946   9.933518   7.978227   7.512960   6.641862   5.667780   
>> 5.721358
>> 1988-01-26 1988-01-27 1988-01-28
>>  6.863729   9.600000   9.049846
>>
>> s2 <- aggregate(z, starts, mean)
>> s2[1:10]
>>
>> 1988-01-13 1988-01-14 1988-01-16 1988-01-20 1988-01-21 1988-01-22 
>> 1988-01-25
>>  7.973946   9.933518   7.978227   7.512960   6.641862   5.667780   
>> 5.721358
>> 1988-01-26 1988-01-27 1988-01-28
>>  6.863729   9.600000   9.049846
>>
>>
>> Always the same. Don't know why (there are not NA's in the series)
>>
>> Antonio
>>
>>
>>
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