R Sum rows by hourly rate - r

Question

I'm getting started with R, so please bear with me
For example, I have this data.table (or data.frame) object :
Time Station count_starts count_ends
01/01/2015 00:30 A 2 3
01/01/2015 00:40 A 2 1
01/01/2015 00:55 B 1 1
01/01/2015 01:17 A 3 1
01/01/2015 01:37 A 1 1
My end goal is to group the "Time" column to hourly and sum the count_starts and count_ends based on the hourly time and station :
Time Station sum(count_starts) sum(count_ends)
01/01/2015 01:00 A 4 4
01/01/2015 01:00 B 1 1
01/01/2015 02:00 A 4 2
I did some research and found out that I should use the xts library.
Thanks for helping me out
UPDATE :
I converted the type of transactions$Time to POSIXct, so the xts package should be able to use the timeseries directly.

Answer 1

Using base R, we can still do the above. Only that the hour will be one less for all of them:
dat=read.table(text = "Time Station count_starts count_ends
'01/01/2015 00:30' A 2 3
'01/01/2015 00:40' A 2 1
'01/01/2015 00:55' B 1 1
'01/01/2015 01:17' A 3 1
'01/01/2015 01:37' A 1 1",
header = TRUE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
dat$Time=cut(strptime(dat$Time,"%m/%d/%Y %H:%M"),"hour")
aggregate(.~Time+Station,dat,sum)
Time Station count_starts count_ends
1 2015-01-01 00:00:00 A 4 4
2 2015-01-01 01:00:00 A 4 2
3 2015-01-01 00:00:00 B 1 1
You can use the order function to rearrange the table or even the sort.POSIXlt function:
m=aggregate(.~Time+Station,dat,sum)
m[order(m[,1]),]
Time Station count_starts count_ends
1 2015-01-01 00:00:00 A 4 4
3 2015-01-01 00:00:00 B 1 1
2 2015-01-01 01:00:00 A 4 2

Answer 2

A solution using dplyr and lubridate. The key is to use ceiling_date to convert the date time column to hourly time-step, and then group and summarize the data.
library(dplyr)
library(lubridate)
dt2 <- dt %>%
mutate(Time = mdy_hm(Time)) %>%
mutate(Time = ceiling_date(Time, unit = "hour")) %>%
group_by(Time, Station) %>%
summarise(`sum(count_starts)` = sum(count_starts),
`sum(count_ends)` = sum(count_ends)) %>%
ungroup()
dt2
# # A tibble: 3 x 4
# Time Station `sum(count_starts)` `sum(count_ends)`
# <dttm> <chr> <int> <int>
# 1 2015-01-01 01:00:00 A 4 4
# 2 2015-01-01 01:00:00 B 1 1
# 3 2015-01-01 02:00:00 A 4 2
DATA
dt <- read.table(text = "Time Station count_starts count_ends
'01/01/2015 00:30' A 2 3
'01/01/2015 00:40' A 2 1
'01/01/2015 00:55' B 1 1
'01/01/2015 01:17' A 3 1
'01/01/2015 01:37' A 1 1",
header = TRUE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
Explanation
mdy_hm is the function to convert the string to date-time class. It means "month-day-year hour-minute", which depends on the structure of the string. ceiling_date rounds a date-time object up based on the unit specified. group_by is to group the variable. summarise is to conduct summary operation.

Answer 3

There are basically two things required:
1) round of the Time to nearest 1 hour window:
library(data.table)
library(lubridate)
data=data.table(Time=c('01/01/2015 00:30','01/01/2015 00:40','01/01/2015 00:55','01/01/2015 01:17','01/01/2015 01:37'),Station=c('A','A','B','A','A'),count_starts=c(2,2,1,3,1),count_ends=c(3,1,1,1,1))
data[,Time_conv:=as.POSIXct(strptime(Time,'%d/%m/%Y %H:%M'))]
data[,Time_round:=floor_date(Time_conv,unit="1 hour")]
2) List the data table obtained above to get the desired result:
New_data=data[,list(count_starts_sum=sum(count_starts),count_ends_sum=sum(count_ends)),by='Time_round']