[R] [r] How to pick colums from a ragged array?

Rui Barradas ruipbarradas at sapo.pt
Tue Oct 23 16:08:47 CEST 2012


Hello,

Inline.
Em 23-10-2012 14:53, Stuart Leask escreveu:
> I too had a parsimonious solution that was also fooled by IDs that had a duplicate date that wasn't the first date, but was the same as another ID's duplicate+first.
>
> The right answer
> >From this data:
>
> ID <- c(58,58,58,58,167,167,323,323,323,323,323,323,323
> ,547,794,814,814,814,814,814,814,841,841,841,841,841
> ,841,841,841,841,910,910,910,910,910,910,999,1019,1019
> ,1019)
>
> DATE <-
>   c(20060821,20061207,20080102,20090904,20040205,20040205,20051111
>   ,20060111,20071119,20080107,20080407,20080521,20080711,20041005
>   ,20070905,20020814,20021125,20040429,20040429,20071205,20080227
>   ,20050421,20050421,20060428,20060602,20060816,20061025,20061129
>   ,20070112,20070514, 19870508,20040205,20040205, 20091120,20091210
>   ,20091224,20050503,19870508,19870508,19880330)
>
>   id.d <- cbind (ID,DATE )
>
> is:
>
> 167, 841  and 1019 - correct.
> 814 910 - incorrect. Although there are duplicate dates, they are not the first date.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arun [mailto:smartpink111 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: 23 October 2012 14:29
> To: Stuart Leask
> Cc: R help
> Subject: Re: [R] [r] How to pick colums from a ragged array?
>
> Hi,
> Also one more thing:
> This should get the dates which are duplicated.  In my first reply, I was looking for the duplicated rows. Sorry for that!
>
> id.d<-data.frame(ID,DATE)
>
> new1<-id.d[duplicated(id.d$DATE)|duplicated(id.d$DATE,fromLast=TRUE),]
>
>
> new2<-new1[order(new1$ID,new1$DATE),]
>   tapply(new2$ID,new2$DATE,head,1)
> #19870508 20040205 20040429 20050421
>    #   910      167      814      841
>
> But, still the result is not that you wanted, because 910's date is the earliest date when compared to 1019.
> new1[order(new1$ID,new1$DATE),]
> #     ID     DATE
> #5   167 20040205
> #6   167 20040205
> #18  814 20040429
> #19  814 20040429
> #22  841 20050421
> #23  841 20050421
> #31  910 19870508
> #32  910 20040205
> #33  910 20040205
> #38 1019 19870508
> #39 1019 19870508
>
> A.K.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stuart Leask <Stuart.Leask at nottingham.ac.uk>
> To: arun <smartpink111 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Petr PIKAL <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 9:15 AM
> Subject: RE: [R] [r] How to pick colums from a ragged array?
>
> Sorry Arun, but when I run it I get an error:
>
>> ID <- c(58,58,58,58,167,167,323,323,323,323,323,323,323
> + ,547,794,814,814,814,814,814,814,841,841,841,841,841
> + ,841,841,841,841,910,910,910,910,910,910,999,1019,1019
> + ,1019)
>> DATE <-
> +  c(20060821,20061207,20080102,20090904,20040205,20040205,20051111
> +  ,20060111,20071119,20080107,20080407,20080521,20080711,20041005
> +  ,20070905,20020814,20021125,20040429,20040429,20071205,20080227
> +  ,20050421,20050421,20060428,20060602,20060816,20061025,20061129
> +  ,20070112,20070514, 19870508,20040205,20040205, 20091120,20091210
> +  ,20091224,20050503,19870508,19870508,19880330)
>>   id.d <- cbind (ID,DATE )
>> new1<-id.d[duplicated(id.d)|duplicated(id.d,fromLast=TRUE),]
>>
>>
>> tapply(new1$ID,new1$DATE,head,1)
> Error in new1$DATE : $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors

The error comes from the fact that id.d is a matrix, Arun is using one 
of the list or data.frame ways of accessing the elements. Try new1[, 
"ID"] and new1[, "DATE"].
Anyway I believe the solution will give all duplicates' first rows, not 
the first rows of the duplicates in first row of each ID.

Rui Barradas
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arun [mailto:smartpink111 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: 23 October 2012 14:05
> To: Stuart Leask
> Cc: R help; Petr PIKAL
> Subject: Re: [R] [r] How to pick colums from a ragged array?
>
> HI,
> I was not following the thread.
> May be this is what you are looking for:
> new1<-id.d[duplicated(id.d)|duplicated(id.d,fromLast=TRUE),]
>
>
> tapply(new1$ID,new1$DATE,head,1)
> #19870508 20040205 20040429 20050421
>    #  1019      167      814      841
> A.K.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stuart Leask <Stuart.Leask at nottingham.ac.uk>
> To: PIKAL Petr <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>; "r-help at r-project.org" <r-help at r-project.org>
> Cc:
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 8:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [R] [r] How to pick colums from a ragged array?
>
> Hi there.
>
> Not sure I follow what you are doing.
>
> I want a list of all the IDs that have duplicate DATE entries, only when the DATE is the earliest (or last) date for that ID.
>
> I have refined my test dataset, to include some tests (e.g. 910 has the same dup as 1019, but for 910 it's not the earliest date):
>
>
> ID <- c(58,58,58,58,167,167,323,323,323,323,323,323,323
> ,547,794,814,814,814,814,814,814,841,841,841,841,841
> ,841,841,841,841,910,910,910,910,910,910,999,1019,1019
> ,1019)
>
> DATE <-
> c(20060821,20061207,20080102,20090904,20040205,20040205,20051111
> ,20060111,20071119,20080107,20080407,20080521,20080711,20041005
> ,20070905,20020814,20021125,20040429,20040429,20071205,20080227
> ,20050421,20050421,20060428,20060602,20060816,20061025,20061129
> ,20070112,20070514, 19870508,20040205,20040205, 20091120,20091210
> ,20091224,20050503,19870508,19870508,19880330)
>
> Correct output:
> "167"  "841"  "1019"
>
> Stuart
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: PIKAL Petr [mailto:petr.pikal at precheza.cz]
> Sent: 23 October 2012 13:15
> To: Stuart Leask; r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: RE: [r] How to pick colums from a ragged array?
>
> Hi
>
> Rui's answer brought me to more elaborated solution which still needs data frame to be ordered by date
>
> fff<-function(data, first=TRUE, remove=FALSE) {
>
> testfirst <- function(x) x[1,2]==x[2,2]
> testlast <- function(x) x[length(x),2]==x[length(x)-1,2]
>
> if(first) sel <- as.numeric(names(which(sapply(split(data, data[,1]), testfirst)))) else sel <- as.numeric(names(which(sapply(split(data, data[,1]), testlast))))
>
> if (remove) data[data[,1]!=sel,] else data[data[,1]==sel,] }
>
>
>> fff(id.d)
>      ID     DATE
> 31 910 20091105
> 32 910 20091105
> 33 910 20091117
> 34 910 20091119
> 35 910 20091120
> 36 910 20091210
> 37 910 20091224
> 38 910 20091224
>
>> fff(id.d, remove=T)
>       ID     DATE
> 1    58 20060821
> 2    58 20061207
> 3    58 20080102
> 4    58 20090904
> 5   167 20040205
> 6   167 20040323
> 7   323 20051111
> 8   323 20060111
> 9   323 20071119
> 10  323 20080107
> 11  323 20080407
> 12  323 20080521
> 13  323 20080711
> 14  547 20041005
> 15  794 20070905
> 16  814 20020814
> 17  814 20021125
> 18  814 20040429
> 19  814 20040429
> 20  814 20071205
> 21  814 20080227
> 22  841 20050421
> 23  841 20060130
> 24  841 20060428
> 25  841 20060602
> 26  841 20060816
> 27  841 20061025
> 28  841 20061129
> 29  841 20070112
> 30  841 20070514
> 39  999 20050503
> 40 1019 19870508
> 41 1019 19880223
> 42 1019 19880330
> 43 1019 19880330
> Regards
> Petr
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
>> project.org] On Behalf Of PIKAL Petr
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 1:49 PM
>> To: Stuart Leask; r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] [r] How to pick colums from a ragged array?
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I did not check your code and rather followed your explanation. BTW,
>> thanks for test data.
>>
>> small change in data frame to make DATE as Date class
>>
>> datum<-as.Date(as.character(DATE), format="%Y%m%d") id.d <-
>> data.frame(ID,datum )
>>
>> ordering by date
>>
>> id.d<-id.d[order(id.d$datum),]
>>
>>
>> two functions to test if first two dates are the same or last two
>> dates are the same
>>
>> testfirst <- function(x) x[1,2]==x[2,2] testlast <- function(x)
>> x[length(x),2]==x[length(x)-1,2]
>>
>> change one last date in the data frame to be the same as previous
>>
>> id.d[35,2]<-id.d[36,2]
>>
>> and here are results
>>
>> sapply(split(id.d, id.d$ID), testlast)
>>     58   167   323   547   794   814   841   910   999  1019  FALSE
>> FALSE FALSE    NA    NA FALSE FALSE  TRUE    NA FALSE
>>
>>> sapply(split(id.d, id.d$ID), testfirst)
>>     58   167   323   547   794   814   841   910   999  1019  FALSE
>> FALSE FALSE    NA    NA FALSE FALSE FALSE    NA FALSE
>>
>> Now you can select ID which is true and remove it from your data
>> which(sapply(split(id.d, id.d$ID), testlast))
>>
>> and use it for your data frame to subset/remove id.d$ID ==
>> as.numeric(names(which(sapply(split(id.d, id.d$ID), testlast))))  [1]
>> FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE
>> FALSE [13] FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE
>> FALSE FALSE [25] FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE
>> FALSE TRUE  TRUE [37]  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE
>>
>> However I am not sure if this is exactly what you want.
>>
>> Regards
>> Petr
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
>>> project.org] On Behalf Of Stuart Leask
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 11:38 AM
>>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>>> Subject: [R] [r] How to pick colums from a ragged array?
>>>
>>> I have a large dataset (~1 million rows) of three variables: ID
>>> (patient's name), DATE (of appointment) and DIAGNOSIS (given on that
>>> date).
>>> Patients may have been assigned more than one diagnosis at any one
>>> appointment - leading to two rows, same ID and DATE but different
>>> DIAGNOSIS.
>>> The diagnoses may change between appointments.
>>>
>>> I want to subset the data in two ways:
>>>
>>> -          define groups of patients by the first diagnosis given
>>>
>>> -          define groups of patients by the last diagnosis given.
>>>
>>> The problem:
>>> Unfortunately, a small number of patients have been given more than
>>> one diagnosis at their first (or last) appointment. These
>>> individuals I need to identify and remove, as it's not possible to
>>> say uniquely what their first (or last) diagnosis was. So I need to
>>> identify and remove these individuals which have pairs of rows with
>>> the same ID
>> and
>>> (lowest or highest) DATE. The size of the dataset precludes the
>> option
>>> of doing this by eye.
>>>
>>> I suspect there is a very elegant way of doing this in R.
>>>
>>> This is what I've come up with:
>>>
>>>
>>> -          Sort by DATE then ID
>>>
>>> -          Make a ragged array of DATE by ID
>>>
>>> -          Remove IDs that only occur once.
>>>
>>> -          Subtract the first and second DATEs. Remove IDs for which
>>> this = zero, as this will only be true for IDs for which the
>>> appointment is recorded twice (because there were two diagnoses
>>> recorded on this date).
>>>
>>> -          (Then do the same to get the 'last appointment'
>> duplicates,
>>> by reversing the initial sort by DATE.)
>>>
>>> I am stuck at the 'Subtract dates' step: I would like to get the
>>> data out of the ragged array by columns (so e.g. I end up with a
>>> matrix of ID, 1st DATE, 2nd DATE). But I can't get the dates out by
>>> column from the ragged array.
>>>
>>> I hope someone can help. My ugly code is below, with some data for
>>> testing.
>>>
>>>
>>> Stuart
>>>
>>>
>>> Dr Stuart John Leask DM FRCPsych MB BChir MA Clinical Senior
>>> Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Pychiatrist Institute of Mental
>>> Health, Innovation Park Triumph Road, Nottingham, Notts. NG7 2TU. UK
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>>> 115 82 30419
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>>>
>>>
>>> ID <- c(58,58,58,58,167,167,323,323,323,323,323,323,323
>>> ,547,794,814,814,814,814,814,814,841,841,841,841,841
>>> ,841,841,841,841,910,910,910,910,910,910,999,1019,1019
>>> ,1019)
>>>
>>> DATE <-
>>> c(20060821,20061207,20080102,20090904,20040205,20040323,20051111
>>> ,20060111,20071119,20080107,20080407,20080521,20080711,20041005
>>> ,20070905,20020814,20021125,20040429,20040429,20071205,20080227
>>> ,20050421,20060130,20060428,20060602,20060816,20061025,20061129
>>> ,20070112,20070514,20091105,20091117,20091119,20091120,20091210
>>> ,20091224,20050503,19870508,19880223,19880330)
>>>
>>> id.d <- cbind (ID,DATE )
>>> rag.a  <-  split ( id.d [ ,2 ], id.d [ ,1])               # create
>>> ragged array, 1-n DATES for every NAME
>>>
>>> # Inelegant attempt to remove IDs that only have one entry:
>>>
>>> rag.s <-tapply  (id.d [ ,2], id.d [ ,1], sum)             #add up
>>> the dates per row # Since DATE is in 'year mo da', if there's only
>>> one date, sum will
>> be
>>> less than 2100000:
>>> rag.t <- rag.s [ rag.s > 21000000 ]
>>> multi.dates <- rownames ( rag.t )                         # all the
>> IDs
>>> with >1 date
>>> rag.am <- rag.a [ multi.dates ]                           # rag.am
>> only
>>> has IDs with > 1 Date
>>>
>>>
>>> # But now I'm stuck.
>>> # Each row of the array is rag.am$ID.
>>> # So I can't pick columns of DATEs from the ragged array.
>>>
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