Expand start and end dates to unbalanced monthly panel with dplyr - r

I have start and end dates for events that I want to expand into a monthly panel, and I wanted to know if there was any tool in dplyr for solving this problem. The following code does what I want to do with ddply(). It first creates an example tibble data.frame (called "wide") where "id" represents an individual and "HomeNum" is an event for that individual. The next line creates a "date" variable that is a monthly series from "StartDate" to "FinishDate" within each "id" by "HomeNum" group.
library(plyr)
library(dplyr)
library(tibble)
wide =
tibble(
id = c(1, 1, 2, 2, 2),
HomeNum = c(0,1,0,1,2),
StartDate = as.Date(c("2001-01-01", "2001-03-01", "2000-04-01", "2001-02-01", "2002-08-01")),
FinishDate = as.Date(c("2001-02-01", "2002-05-01", "2001-01-01", "2002-07-01", "2002-12-01"))
)
panel =
ddply(wide,
~id+HomeNum,
transform,
date = seq.Date(StartDate, FinishDate, by = "month")
)
I assume that dplyr, as the "the next iteration of plyr", must have some way to implement a similar solution (and output a tibble), but the following did not work:
panel =
wide %>%
group_by(id, HomeNum) %>%
mutate(date = seq.Date(StartDate, FinishDate, by = "month"))
and returned
Error in mutate_impl(.data, dots) :
Column `date` must be length 1 (the group size), not 2
Frankly, I am surprised that the ddply() solution works and does not throw a similar error.
My implementation with ddply() is similar to answers to this question.

You can coerce the elements of date to lists and unnest.
library(tidyverse)
wide %>%
group_by(id, HomeNum) %>%
mutate(date = list(seq.Date(StartDate, FinishDate, by = "month"))) %>%
unnest(date)

Using unnest on a list of dates was an issue in previous versions of tidyr. I got this same error and found a workaround, but then no longer needed the workaround once I updated to tidyr 0.8.1. It's an issue that's documented in a few issues on GitHub—#407 and #450 were ones I looked at.
If you have a version that can't unnest dates, you can build on #hpesoj626's answer by converting the dates to strings, unnesting, then converting the strings back to dates.
library(tidyverse)
wide <- tibble(
id = c(1, 1, 2, 2, 2),
HomeNum = c(0,1,0,1,2),
StartDate = as.Date(c("2001-01-01", "2001-03-01", "2000-04-01", "2001-02-01", "2002-08-01")),
FinishDate = as.Date(c("2001-02-01", "2002-05-01", "2001-01-01", "2002-07-01", "2002-12-01"))
)
# with previous versions of tidyr
wide %>%
group_by(id, HomeNum) %>%
mutate(date = list(seq.Date(StartDate, FinishDate, by = "month") %>% as.character())) %>%
tidyr::unnest() %>%
mutate(date = as.Date(date))
#> # A tibble: 50 x 5
#> # Groups: id, HomeNum [5]
#> id HomeNum StartDate FinishDate date
#> <dbl> <dbl> <date> <date> <date>
#> 1 1 0 2001-01-01 2001-02-01 2001-01-01
#> 2 1 0 2001-01-01 2001-02-01 2001-02-01
#> 3 1 1 2001-03-01 2002-05-01 2001-03-01
#> 4 1 1 2001-03-01 2002-05-01 2001-04-01
#> 5 1 1 2001-03-01 2002-05-01 2001-05-01
#> 6 1 1 2001-03-01 2002-05-01 2001-06-01
#> 7 1 1 2001-03-01 2002-05-01 2001-07-01
#> 8 1 1 2001-03-01 2002-05-01 2001-08-01
#> 9 1 1 2001-03-01 2002-05-01 2001-09-01
#> 10 1 1 2001-03-01 2002-05-01 2001-10-01
#> # ... with 40 more rows
Otherwise, a solution like the one they posted should work:
# with tidyr 0.8.1
wide %>%
group_by(id, HomeNum) %>%
mutate(date = list(seq.Date(StartDate, FinishDate, by = "month"))) %>%
tidyr::unnest()
#> # A tibble: 50 x 5
#> # Groups: id, HomeNum [5]
#> id HomeNum StartDate FinishDate date
#> <dbl> <dbl> <date> <date> <date>
#> 1 1 0 2001-01-01 2001-02-01 2001-01-01
#> 2 1 0 2001-01-01 2001-02-01 2001-02-01
#> 3 1 1 2001-03-01 2002-05-01 2001-03-01
#> 4 1 1 2001-03-01 2002-05-01 2001-04-01
#> 5 1 1 2001-03-01 2002-05-01 2001-05-01
#> 6 1 1 2001-03-01 2002-05-01 2001-06-01
#> 7 1 1 2001-03-01 2002-05-01 2001-07-01
#> 8 1 1 2001-03-01 2002-05-01 2001-08-01
#> 9 1 1 2001-03-01 2002-05-01 2001-09-01
#> 10 1 1 2001-03-01 2002-05-01 2001-10-01
#> # ... with 40 more rows
Another option is to gather the data into a long format, where observations have a type column showing whether it's the start or finish date. Then use complete to fill in missing dates between each group's minimum and maximum dates. Gathering keeps the type column, which gets filled in as NA for the dates that are added. You could then drop the type column if it's no longer useful.
wide %>%
gather(key = type, value = date, StartDate, FinishDate) %>%
group_by(id, HomeNum) %>%
complete(date = seq.Date(min(date), max(date), by = "month"))
#> # A tibble: 50 x 4
#> # Groups: id, HomeNum [5]
#> id HomeNum date type
#> <dbl> <dbl> <date> <chr>
#> 1 1 0 2001-01-01 StartDate
#> 2 1 0 2001-02-01 FinishDate
#> 3 1 1 2001-03-01 StartDate
#> 4 1 1 2001-04-01 <NA>
#> 5 1 1 2001-05-01 <NA>
#> 6 1 1 2001-06-01 <NA>
#> 7 1 1 2001-07-01 <NA>
#> 8 1 1 2001-08-01 <NA>
#> 9 1 1 2001-09-01 <NA>
#> 10 1 1 2001-10-01 <NA>
#> # ... with 40 more rows
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Related

R - Find x days from start date while keeping dates inbetween

I am trying to find the first date of each category then subtract 5 days AND I want to keep the days inbetween! this is where I am struggling. I tried seq() but it gave me an error, so I'm not sure if this is the right way to do it.
I am able to get 5 days prior to my start date for each category, but I can't figure out how to get 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 AND 5 days prior to my start date!
The error I got is this (for the commented out part of the code):
Error in seq.default(., as.Date(first_day), by = "day", length.out = 5) :
'from' must be of length 1
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
library ("lubridate")
library("dplyr")
library("tidyr")
data <- data.frame(date = c("2020-06-08",
"2020-06-09",
"2020-06-10",
"2020-06-11",
"2020-06-12",
"2021-07-13",
"2021-07-14",
"2021-07-15",
"2021-08-16",
"2021-08-17",
"2021-08-18",
"2021-09-19",
"2021-09-20"),
value = c(2,1,7,1,0,1,2,3,4,7,6,5,10),
category = c(1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3,4,4))
data$date <- as.Date(data$date)
View(data)
test_dates <- data %>%
group_by(category) %>%
arrange(date) %>%
slice(1L) %>% #takes first date
mutate(first_day = as.Date(date) - 5)#%>%
#seq(as.Date(first_day),by="day",length.out=5)
#error for seq(): Error in seq.default(., as.Date(first_day), by = "day", length.out = 5) : 'from' must be of length 1
head(test_dates)
The answer I'm looking for should include these dates but in a column format! I'm also trying to input NA in the value category if the value doesnt already exist. I want to keep all possible columns, as the dataframe I'm needing to use this on has about 20 columns
Dates: "2020-06-03 ", "2020-06-04", "2020-06-05", "2020-06-06", "2020-06-07", "2020-06-08", "2020-07-08 ", "2020-07-09", "2020-07-10", "2020-07-11", "2020-07-12", "2021-07-13", "2020-08-11 ", "2020-08-12", "2020-08-13", "2020-08-14", "2020-08-15", "2021-08-16", "2020-09-14 ", "2020-09-15", "2020-09-16", "2020-09-17", "2020-09-18", "2021-09-19",
Related question here: How do I subset my df for the minimum date based on one category and including x days before that?
Here's one approach but kinda clunky:
bind_rows(
data,
data %>%
group_by(category) %>%
slice_min(date) %>%
uncount(6, .id = "id") %>%
mutate(date = date - id + 1) %>%
select(-id)) %>%
arrange(category, date)
Result
# A tibble: 37 × 3
date value category
<date> <dbl> <dbl>
1 2020-06-03 2 1
2 2020-06-04 2 1
3 2020-06-05 2 1
4 2020-06-06 2 1
5 2020-06-07 2 1
6 2020-06-08 2 1
7 2020-06-08 2 1
8 2020-06-09 1 1
9 2020-06-10 7 1
10 2020-06-11 1 1
# … with 27 more rows
This approach provides the row from each category with the minimum date, plus the five dates prior for each category (with value set to NA for these rows)
library(data.table)
setDT(data)[data[, .(date=seq(min(date)-5,by="day", length.out=6)), category], on=.(category,date)]
Output:
date value category
1: 2020-06-03 NA 1
2: 2020-06-04 NA 1
3: 2020-06-05 NA 1
4: 2020-06-06 NA 1
5: 2020-06-07 NA 1
6: 2020-06-08 2 1
7: 2021-07-08 NA 2
8: 2021-07-09 NA 2
9: 2021-07-10 NA 2
10: 2021-07-11 NA 2
11: 2021-07-12 NA 2
12: 2021-07-13 1 2
13: 2021-08-11 NA 3
14: 2021-08-12 NA 3
15: 2021-08-13 NA 3
16: 2021-08-14 NA 3
17: 2021-08-15 NA 3
18: 2021-08-16 4 3
19: 2021-09-14 NA 4
20: 2021-09-15 NA 4
21: 2021-09-16 NA 4
22: 2021-09-17 NA 4
23: 2021-09-18 NA 4
24: 2021-09-19 5 4
date value category
Note: The above uses a join; an identical result can be achieved without a join by row-binding the first row for each category with the data.table generated similarly as above:
rbind(
setDT(data)[order(date), .SD[1],category],
data[,.(date=seq(min(date)-5,by="day",length.out=5),value=NA),category]
)
You indicate you have many columns, so if you are going to take this second approach, rather than explicitly setting value=NA in the second input to rbind, you can also just leave it out, and add fill=TRUE within the rbind()
A dplyr version of the same is:
bind_rows(
data %>%
group_by(category) %>%
slice_min(date) %>%
ungroup() %>%
mutate(date=as.Date(date)),
data %>%
group_by(category) %>%
summarize(date=seq(min(as.Date(date))-5,by="day", length.out=5), .groups="drop")
)
Output:
# A tibble: 24 x 3
date value category
<date> <dbl> <dbl>
1 2020-06-08 2 1
2 2021-07-13 1 2
3 2021-08-16 4 3
4 2021-09-19 5 4
5 2020-06-03 NA 1
6 2020-06-04 NA 1
7 2020-06-05 NA 1
8 2020-06-06 NA 1
9 2020-06-07 NA 1
10 2021-07-08 NA 2
# ... with 14 more rows
Update (9/21/22) -
If you want the NA values to be filled, simply add this to the end of either data.table pipeline:
...[,value:=max(value, na.rm=T), category]
or add this to the dplyr pipeline
... %>%
group_by(category) %>%
mutate(value=max(value, na.rm=T))
#Jon Srpings answer fired this alternative approach:
Here we first get the first days - 5 as already presented in the question. Then we use bind_rows as Jon Srping does in his answer. Next step is to identify the original first dates within the dates column (we use !duplicated within filter). Last main step is to use coalesce:
library(lubridate)
library(dplyr)
data %>%
group_by(category) %>%
mutate(x = min(ymd(date))-5) %>%
slice(1) %>%
bind_rows(data) %>%
mutate(date = ymd(date)) %>%
filter(!duplicated(date)) %>%
mutate(x = coalesce(x, date)) %>%
arrange(category) %>%
select(date = x, value)
category date value
<dbl> <date> <dbl>
1 1 2020-06-03 2
2 1 2020-06-09 1
3 1 2020-06-10 7
4 1 2020-06-11 1
5 1 2020-06-12 0
6 2 2021-07-08 1
7 2 2021-07-14 2
8 2 2021-07-15 3
9 3 2021-08-11 4
10 3 2021-08-17 7
11 3 2021-08-18 6
12 4 2021-09-14 5
13 4 2021-09-20 10

if_else with sequence of conditions

I have the following data:
library(tidyverse)
library(lubridate)
df <- tibble(date = as_date(c("2019-11-20", "2019-11-27", "2020-04-01", "2020-04-15", "2020-09-23", "2020-11-25", "2021-03-03")))
# A tibble: 7 x 1
date
<date>
1 2019-11-20
2 2019-11-27
3 2020-04-01
4 2020-04-15
5 2020-09-23
6 2020-11-25
7 2021-03-03
I also have an ordered comparison vector of dates:
comparison <- seq(as_date("2019-12-01"), today(), by = "months") - 1
I now want to compare my dates in df to those comparison dates and so something like:
if date in df is < comparison[1], then assign a 1
if date in df is < comparison[2], then assign a 2
and so on.
I know I could do it with a case_when, e.g.
df %>%
mutate(new_var = case_when(date < comparison[1] ~ 1,
date < comparison[2] ~ 2))
(of course filling this up with all comparisons).
However, this would require to manually write out all sequential conditions and I'm wondering if I couldn't just automate it. I though about creating a match lookup first (i.e. take the comparison vector, then add the respective new_var number (i.e. 1, 2, and so on)) and then match it against my data, but I only know how to do that for exact matches and don't know how I can add the "smaller than" condition.
Expected result:
# A tibble: 7 x 2
date new_var
<date> <dbl>
1 2019-11-20 1
2 2019-11-27 1
3 2020-04-01 6
4 2020-04-15 6
5 2020-09-23 11
6 2020-11-25 13
7 2021-03-03 17
You can use findInterval as follows:
df %>% mutate(new_var = df$date %>% findInterval(comparison) + 1)
# A tibble: 7 x 2
date new_var
<date> <dbl>
1 2019-11-20 1
2 2019-11-27 1
3 2020-04-01 6
4 2020-04-15 6
5 2020-09-23 11
6 2020-11-25 13
7 2021-03-03 17

Grouping and Counting by Dates (R)

I am working with the R programming language. I have a data frame that looks like this:
startdate <- c('2010-01-01','2010-01-01','2010-01-01', '2010-01-02','2010-01-03','2010-01-03')
event <- c(1,1,1,1,1,1)
my_data <- data.frame(startdate, event)
startdate event
1 2010-01-01 1
2 2010-01-01 1
3 2010-01-01 1
4 2010-01-02 1
5 2010-01-03 1
6 2010-01-03 1
Note: The actual value of "startdate" is "POSIXct" and is written as "year-month-date".
I am trying to take a cumulative sum of "event" according to the "startdate" column. The result should look like this
startdate <- c('2010-01-01', '2010-01-02' ,'2010-01-03')
event <- c(3,4,6)
my_data_2 <- data.frame(startdate, event)
#desired file
startdate event
1 2010-01-01 3
2 2010-01-02 4
3 2010-01-03 6
I tried to do this with the "dplyr" library:
library(dplyr)
new_file = my_data %>% group_by(startdate) %>% mutate(cumsum_value = cumsum(event))
But this returns something slightly different and non-intended:
startdate event cumsum_value
<chr> <dbl> <dbl>
1 2010-01-01 1 1
2 2010-01-01 1 2
3 2010-01-01 1 3
4 2010-01-02 1 1
5 2010-01-03 1 1
6 2010-01-03 1 2
Can someone please show me how to fix this?
Thanks
my_data %>%
mutate(cumsum = cumsum(event)) %>%
group_by(startdate) %>%
summarise(max(cumsum))
# A tibble: 3 × 2
startdate `max(cumsum)`
<chr> <dbl>
1 2010-01-01 3
2 2010-01-02 4
3 2010-01-03 6
mutate the event column and calculate cumsum
group_by startdate and
summarise max(event)
library(dplyr)
my_data %>%
mutate(event = cumsum(event)) %>%
group_by(startdate) %>%
summarise(event = max(event))
```
```
startdate event
<chr> <dbl>
1 2010-01-01 3
2 2010-01-02 4
3 2010-01-03 6
```
Another option is also to make use of duplicated and thus avoiding the group_by. Also, if the 'event' column is just 1, instead of doing cumsum, we could use the built-in function row_number() to create a sequence
library(dplyr)
my_data %>%
mutate(event = row_number()) %>%
filter(!duplicated(startdate, fromLast = TRUE))

Find overlapping intervals in groups and retain largest non-overlapping periods

Issue
I have a grouped dataframe with overlapping intervals (date as ymd). I want to retain only the largest non-overlapping intervals in each group.
Example data
# Packages
library(tidyverse)
library(lubridate)
# Example data
df <- tibble(
group = c(1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3),
start = as_date(
c("2019-01-10", "2019-02-01", "2019-10-05", "2018-07-01", "2019-01-01", "2019-10-01", "2019-10-01", "2019-11-30","2019-11-20")),
end = as_date(
c("2019-02-07", "2019-05-01", "2019-11-15", "2018-07-31", "2019-05-05", "2019-11-06", "2019-10-07", "2019-12-10","2019-12-31"))) %>%
mutate(intval = interval(start, end),
intval_length = intval / days(1))
df
#> # A tibble: 9 x 5
#> group start end intval intval_length
#> <dbl> <date> <date> <Interval> <dbl>
#> 1 1 2019-01-10 2019-02-07 2019-01-10 UTC--2019-02-07 UTC 28
#> 2 1 2019-02-01 2019-05-01 2019-02-01 UTC--2019-05-01 UTC 89
#> 3 1 2019-10-05 2019-11-15 2019-10-05 UTC--2019-11-15 UTC 41
#> 4 2 2018-07-01 2018-07-31 2018-07-01 UTC--2018-07-31 UTC 30
#> 5 2 2019-01-01 2019-05-05 2019-01-01 UTC--2019-05-05 UTC 124
#> 6 3 2019-10-01 2019-11-06 2019-10-01 UTC--2019-11-06 UTC 36
#> 7 3 2019-10-01 2019-10-07 2019-10-01 UTC--2019-10-07 UTC 6
#> 8 3 2019-11-30 2019-12-10 2019-11-30 UTC--2019-12-10 UTC 10
#> 9 3 2019-11-20 2019-12-31 2019-11-20 UTC--2019-12-31 UTC 41
# Goal
# Row: 1 and 2; 6 to 9 have overlaps; Keep rows with largest intervals (in days)
df1 <- df[-c(1, 7, 8),]
df1
#> # A tibble: 6 x 5
#> group start end intval intval_length
#> <dbl> <date> <date> <Interval> <dbl>
#> 1 1 2019-02-01 2019-05-01 2019-02-01 UTC--2019-05-01 UTC 89
#> 2 1 2019-10-05 2019-11-15 2019-10-05 UTC--2019-11-15 UTC 41
#> 3 2 2018-07-01 2018-07-31 2018-07-01 UTC--2018-07-31 UTC 30
#> 4 2 2019-01-01 2019-05-05 2019-01-01 UTC--2019-05-05 UTC 124
#> 5 3 2019-10-01 2019-11-06 2019-10-01 UTC--2019-11-06 UTC 36
#> 6 3 2019-11-20 2019-12-31 2019-11-20 UTC--2019-12-31 UTC 41
Current approach
I found a related question in another thread (see: Find dates within a period interval by group). However, the respective solution identifies all overlapping rows by group. In this way, I can't identify the largest non-overlapping intervals.
df$overlap <- unlist(tapply(df$intval, #loop through intervals
df$group, #grouped by id
function(x) rowSums(outer(x,x,int_overlaps)) > 1))
As an example, consider group 3 in my example data. Here row 6/7 and 8/9 overlap. With row 6 and 9 being the largest non-overlapping periods, I would like to remove row 7 and 8.
I would greatly appreciate it if someone could pinpoint me to a solution.
Having searched for related problems on stackoverflow, I found that the following approaches (here: Collapse and merge overlapping time intervals) and (here: How to flatten / merge overlapping time periods) could be adapted to my issue.
# Solution adapted from:
# here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53213418/collapse-and-merge-overlapping-time-intervals
# and here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28938147/how-to-flatten-merge-overlapping-time-periods/28938694#28938694
# Note: df and df1 created in the initial reprex (above)
df2 <- df %>%
group_by(group) %>%
arrange(group, start) %>%
mutate(indx = c(0, cumsum(as.numeric(lead(start)) > # find overlaps
cummax(as.numeric(end)))[-n()])) %>%
ungroup() %>%
group_by(group, indx) %>%
arrange(desc(intval_length)) %>% # retain largest interval
filter(row_number() == 1) %>%
ungroup() %>%
select(-indx) %>%
arrange(group, start)
# Desired output?
identical(df1, df2)
#> [1] TRUE

Performing in group operations in R

I have a data in which I have 2 fields in a table sf -> Customer id and Buy_date. Buy_date is unique but for each customer, but there can be more than 3 different values of Buy_dates for each customer. I want to calculate difference in consecutive Buy_date for each Customer and its mean value. How can I do this.
Example
Customer Buy_date
1 2018/03/01
1 2018/03/19
1 2018/04/3
1 2018/05/10
2 2018/01/02
2 2018/02/10
2 2018/04/13
I want the results for each customer in the format
Customer mean
Here's a dplyr solution.
Your data:
df <- data.frame(Customer = c(1,1,1,1,2,2,2), Buy_date = c("2018/03/01", "2018/03/19", "2018/04/3", "2018/05/10", "2018/01/02", "2018/02/10", "2018/04/13"))
Grouping, mean Buy_date calculation and summarising:
library(dplyr)
df %>% group_by(Customer) %>% mutate(mean = mean(as.POSIXct(Buy_date))) %>% group_by(Customer, mean) %>% summarise()
Output:
# A tibble: 2 x 2
# Groups: Customer [?]
Customer mean
<dbl> <dttm>
1 1 2018-03-31 06:30:00
2 2 2018-02-17 15:40:00
Or as #r2evans points out in his comment for the consecutive days between Buy_dates:
df %>% group_by(Customer) %>% mutate(mean = mean(diff(as.POSIXct(Buy_date)))) %>% group_by(Customer, mean) %>% summarise()
Output:
# A tibble: 2 x 2
# Groups: Customer [?]
Customer mean
<dbl> <time>
1 1 23.3194444444444
2 2 50.4791666666667
I am not exactly sure of the desired output but this what I think you want.
library(dplyr)
library(zoo)
dat <- read.table(text =
"Customer Buy_date
1 2018/03/01
1 2018/03/19
1 2018/04/3
1 2018/05/10
2 2018/01/02
2 2018/02/10
2 2018/04/13", header = T, stringsAsFactors = F)
dat$Buy_date <- as.Date(dat$Buy_date)
dat %>% group_by(Customer) %>% mutate(diff_between = as.vector(diff(zoo(Buy_date), na.pad=TRUE)),
mean_days = mean(diff_between, na.rm = TRUE))
This produces:
Customer Buy_date diff_between mean_days
<int> <date> <dbl> <dbl>
1 1 2018-03-01 NA 23.3
2 1 2018-03-19 18 23.3
3 1 2018-04-03 15 23.3
4 1 2018-05-10 37 23.3
5 2 2018-01-02 NA 50.5
6 2 2018-02-10 39 50.5
7 2 2018-04-13 62 50.5
EDITED BASED ON USER COMMENTS:
Because you said that you have factors and not characters just convert them by doing the following:
dat$Buy_date <- as.Date(as.character(dat$Buy_date))
dat$Customer <- as.character(dat$Customer)

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