More efficient way of taking averages over multiple lists - r

Question

I have some data where I use the rsample package to create rolling windows (I use the iris data set here). The rolling_iris dataset contains a number of lists.
I would like to compute the min, max, mean and sd of each of the lists. That is in split 1 compute the min across the first 4 columns etc. I originally do this by mapping over the splits and using pivot_longer to rearrange the data then computing the statistics, finally using pivot_wider to get the data back into the original form. This is quite slow.
library(dplyr)
library(purrr)
iris
rolling_iris <- rsample::rolling_origin(iris, initial = 10, assess = 1, cumulative = FALSE, skip = 0)
rolling_iris_statistics <- map(rolling_iris$splits, ~analysis(.x) %>%
pivot_longer(cols = 1:4) %>%
mutate(
min = min(value),
max = max(value),
mean = mean(value),
sd = sd(value)
) %>%
group_by(name) %>%
mutate(rowID = row_number()) %>%
pivot_wider(names_from = name, values_from = value)
)
I would like to map over each of the lists and compute the above statistics. Then once this is done scale the analysis by the following function.
Scale_Me <- function(x){
(x - min(x)) / (max(x) - min(x))
}
Additional:
rolling_iris_analysis <- map(rolling_iris$splits, ~analysis(.x))
rolling_iris_assessment <- map(rolling_iris$splits, ~assessment(.x))
EDIT:
I managed to compute the following (I am not sure if it is "faster")
analysis <- map(rolling_iris$splits, ~analysis(.x))
map(analysis, ~select(., c(1:4)) %>% as.matrix %>% mean())

Answer 1

The below code subsets into each sub data frame. So, rolling_iris_dfs is a list of data frames. Then, you can iterate over each data frame and compute statistics.
rolling_iris_dfs <- map(seq(1, length(rolling_iris[[1]])), ~rolling_iris[[1]][[.x]]$data)
rolling_iris_stats <- map(rolling_iris_dfs, ~analysis(.x) %>%
pivot_longer(cols = 1:4) %>%
mutate(
min = min(value),
max = max(value),
mean = mean(value),
sd = sd(value)
) %>%
group_by(name) %>%
mutate(rowID = row_number()) %>%
pivot_wider(names_from = name, values_from = value)
)