[R] Change values in a dateframe-Speed TEST

Arnaud Michel michel.arnaud at cirad.fr
Thu Jul 25 09:59:07 CEST 2013


Le 25/07/2013 08:50, Berend Hasselman a écrit :
> On 25-07-2013, at 08:35, Arnaud Michel <michel.arnaud at cirad.fr> wrote:
>
>> But I just noticed that the two solutions are not comparable :
>> the change concern only Nom and Prenom (solution Berend) and not also Sexe or Date.de.naissance orother variables (solution Arun) that can changed. But my question was badly put.
> Indeed:-)
>
> But that can be remedied with (small correction w.r.t. initial solution: drop=TRUE removed; not relevant here)
>
> r1 <- droplevels(do.call(rbind,lapply(split(TEST,TEST$Matricule),
>                      FUN=function(x) {x[,1:ncol(x)] <- x[1,1:ncol(x)];x})))
>
> and
>
> r2 <- droplevels(do.call(rbind,lapply(split(TEST,TEST$Matricule),
>                      FUN=function(x) {x[,1:ncol(x)] <- x[nrow(x),1:ncol(x)];x})))
Thank you but I keep
{x[,c("Nom","Prénom")] <- x[nrow(x),c("Nom","Prénom")];x} because in the 
dataframe there are other variables that I do not want to change. I want 
change only "Nom" and "Prénom"

PS : ?w.r.t.
Michel

> Less elegant than alternative with ave
>
> Berend
>
>> Michel
>>
>> Le 25/07/2013 08:06, Arnaud Michel a écrit :
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> For a dataframe with name PaysContrat1 and with
>>> nrow(PaysContrat1)
>>> [1] 52366
>>>
>>> the test of system.time is :
>>>
>>> system.time(droplevels(do.call(rbind,lapply(split(PaysContrat1,PaysContrat1$Matricule),
>>> FUN=function(x) {x[,c("Nom","Prénom")] <- x[nrow(x),c("Nom","Prénom"),drop=TRUE];x}))))
>>>    user  system elapsed
>>>   14.03    0.00   14.04
>>>
>>> system.time(droplevels(PaysContrat1[with(PaysContrat1,ave(seq_along(Matricule),Matricule,FUN=min)) ,]  ))
>>>    user  system elapsed
>>>     0.2     0.0     0.2
>>>
>>> Michel
>>>
>>> Le 24/07/2013 15:29, arun a écrit :
>>>> Hi Michel,
>>>> You could try:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> df1New<-droplevels(TEST[with(TEST,ave(seq_along(Matricule),Matricule,FUN=min)),])
>>>> row.names(df1New)<-1:nrow(df1New)
>>>> df2New<-droplevels(TEST[with(TEST,ave(seq_along(Matricule),Matricule,FUN=max)),])
>>>> row.names(df2New)<-1:nrow(df2New)
>>>>   identical(df1New,df1)
>>>> #[1] TRUE
>>>>   identical(df2New,df2)
>>>> #[1] TRUE
>>>> A.K.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: Arnaud Michel <michel.arnaud at cirad.fr>
>>>> To: R help <r-help at r-project.org>
>>>> Cc:
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 2:39 AM
>>>> Subject: [R] Change values in a dateframe
>>>>
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> I have the following problem :
>>>> The dataframe TEST has multiple lines for a same person because :
>>>> there are differents values of Nom or differents values of Prenom
>>>> but the values of Matricule or Sexe or Date.de.naissance are the same.
>>>>
>>>> TEST <- structure(list(Matricule = c(66L, 67L, 67L, 68L, 89L, 90L, 90L,
>>>> 91L, 108L, 108L, 108L), Nom = structure(c(1L, 2L, 2L, 4L, 8L,
>>>> 5L, 6L, 9L, 3L, 3L, 7L), .Label = c("CHICHE", "GEOF", "GUTIER",
>>>> "JACQUE", "LANGUE", "LANGUE-LOPEZ", "RIVIER", "TRU", "VINCENT"
>>>> ), class = "factor"), Prenom = structure(c(8L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 1L,
>>>> 2L, 2L, 9L, 6L, 7L, 7L), .Label = c("Edgar", "Elodie", "Jeanine",
>>>> "Jeannine", "Michel", "Michele", "Michèle", "Michelle", "Victor"
>>>> ), class = "factor"), Sexe = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L,
>>>> 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L), .Label = c("Féminin", "Masculin"), class =
>>>> "factor"),
>>>>       Date.de.naissance = structure(c(4L, 2L, 2L, 7L, 6L, 5L, 5L,
>>>>       1L, 3L, 3L, 3L), .Label = c("03/09/1940", "04/03/1946", "07/12/1947",
>>>>       "18/11/1945", "27/09/1947", "29/12/1936", "30/03/1935"), class =
>>>> "factor")), .Names = c("Matricule",
>>>> "Nom", "Prenom", "Sexe", "Date.de.naissance"), class = "data.frame",
>>>> row.names = c(NA,
>>>> -11L))
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I would want to make homogeneous the information and would like built 2
>>>> dataframes :
>>>> df1 wich has the value of Nom and Prenom of the first lines of TEST when
>>>> there are different values. The other values (Matricule or Sexe or
>>>> Date.de.naissance) are unchanged
>>>>
>>>> df1 <- structure(list(Matricule = c(66L, 67L, 67L, 68L, 89L, 90L, 90L,
>>>> 91L, 108L, 108L, 108L), Nom = structure(c(1L, 2L, 2L, 4L, 6L,
>>>> 5L, 5L, 7L, 3L, 3L, 3L), .Label = c("CHICHE", "GEOF", "GUTIER",
>>>> "JACQUE", "LANGUE", "TRU", "VINCENT"), class = "factor"), Prenom =
>>>> structure(c(6L,
>>>> 3L, 3L, 4L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 7L, 5L, 5L, 5L), .Label = c("Edgar",
>>>> "Elodie", "Jeanine", "Michel", "Michele", "Michelle", "Victor"
>>>> ), class = "factor"), Sexe = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L,
>>>> 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L), .Label = c("Féminin", "Masculin"), class =
>>>> "factor"),
>>>>       Date.de.naissance = structure(c(4L, 2L, 2L, 7L, 6L, 5L, 5L,
>>>>       1L, 3L, 3L, 3L), .Label = c("03/09/1940", "04/03/1946", "07/12/1947",
>>>>       "18/11/1945", "27/09/1947", "29/12/1936", "30/03/1935"), class =
>>>> "factor")), .Names = c("Matricule",
>>>> "Nom", "Prenom", "Sexe", "Date.de.naissance"), class = "data.frame",
>>>> row.names = c(NA,
>>>> -11L))
>>>>
>>>> df2 wich has the value of Nom and Prenom of the last lines of TEST when
>>>> there are different values. The other values (Matricule or Sexe or
>>>> Date.de.naissance) are unchanged.
>>>>
>>>> df2 <- structure(list(Matricule = c(66L, 67L, 67L, 68L, 89L, 90L, 90L,
>>>> 91L, 108L, 108L, 108L), Nom = structure(c(1L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 6L,
>>>> 4L, 4L, 7L, 5L, 5L, 5L), .Label = c("CHICHE", "GEOF", "JACQUE",
>>>> "LANGUE-LOPEZ", "RIVIER", "TRU", "VINCENT"), class = "factor"),
>>>>       Prenom = structure(c(6L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 7L, 5L,
>>>>       5L, 5L), .Label = c("Edgar", "Elodie", "Jeannine", "Michel",
>>>>       "Michèle", "Michelle", "Victor"), class = "factor"), Sexe =
>>>> structure(c(1L,
>>>>       1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L), .Label = c("Féminin",
>>>>       "Masculin"), class = "factor"), Date.de.naissance = structure(c(4L,
>>>>       2L, 2L, 7L, 6L, 5L, 5L, 1L, 3L, 3L, 3L), .Label = c("03/09/1940",
>>>>       "04/03/1946", "07/12/1947", "18/11/1945", "27/09/1947", "29/12/1936",
>>>>       "30/03/1935"), class = "factor")), .Names = c("Matricule",
>>>> "Nom", "Prenom", "Sexe", "Date.de.naissance"), class = "data.frame",
>>>> row.names = c(NA,
>>>> -11L))
>>>>
>>>> Thank for your helps
>>>> Michel
>>>>
>> -- 
>> Michel ARNAUD
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>>
>

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Michel ARNAUD
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