How do I select rows in a data frame before and after a condition is met? - r

Question

I'm searching the web for a few a days now and I can't find a solution to my (probably easy to solve) problem.
I have huge data frames with 4 variables and over a million observations each. Now I want to select 100 rows before, all rows while and 1000 rows after a specific condition is met and fill the rest with NA's. I tried it with a for loop and if/ifelse but it doesn't work so far. I think it shouldn't be a big thing, but in the moment I just don't get the hang of it.
I create the data using:
foo<-data.frame(t = 1:15, a = sample(1:15), b = c(1,1,1,1,1,4,4,4,4,1,1,1,1,1,1), c = sample(1:15))
My Data looks like this:
ID t a b c
1 1 4 1 7
2 2 7 1 10
3 3 10 1 6
4 4 2 1 4
5 5 13 1 9
6 6 15 4 3
7 7 8 4 15
8 8 3 4 1
9 9 9 4 2
10 10 14 1 8
11 11 5 1 11
12 12 11 1 13
13 13 12 1 5
14 14 6 1 14
15 15 1 1 12
What I want is to pick the value of a (in this example) 2 rows before, all rows while and 3 rows after the value of b is >1 and fill the rest with NA's. [Because this is just an example I guess you can imagine that after these 15 rows there are more rows with the value for b changing from 1 to 4 several times (I did not post it, so I won't spam the question with unnecessary data).]
So I want to get something like:
ID t a b c d
1 1 4 1 7 NA
2 2 7 1 10 NA
3 3 10 1 6 NA
4 4 2 1 4 2
5 5 13 1 9 13
6 6 15 4 3 15
7 7 8 4 15 8
8 8 3 4 1 3
9 9 9 4 2 9
10 10 14 1 8 14
11 11 5 1 11 5
12 12 11 1 13 11
13 13 12 1 5 NA
14 14 6 1 14 NA
15 15 1 1 12 NA
I'm thankful for any help.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Chris

Answer 1

here is the same attempt as missuse, but with data.table:
library(data.table)
foo<-data.frame(t = 1:11, a = sample(1:11), b = c(1,1,1,4,4,4,4,1,1,1,1), c = sample(1:11))
DT <- setDT(foo)
DT[ unique(c(DT[,.I[b>1] ],DT[,.I[b>1]+3 ],DT[,.I[b>1]-2 ])), d := a]
t a b c d
1: 1 10 1 2 NA
2: 2 6 1 10 6
3: 3 5 1 7 5
4: 4 11 4 4 11
5: 5 4 4 9 4
6: 6 8 4 5 8
7: 7 2 4 8 2
8: 8 3 1 3 3
9: 9 7 1 6 7
10: 10 9 1 1 9
11: 11 1 1 11 NA
Here
unique(c(DT[,.I[b>1] ],DT[,.I[b>1]+3 ],DT[,.I[b>1]-2 ]))
gives you your desired indixes : the unique indices of the line for your condition, the same indices+3 and -2.

Answer 2

Here is an attempt.
Get indexes that satisfy the condition b > 1
z <- which(foo$b > 1)
get indexes for (z - 2) : (z + 3)
ind <- unique(unlist(lapply(z, function(x){
g <- pmax(x - 2, 1) #if x - 2 is negative
g : (x + 3)
})))
create d column filled with NA
foo$d <- NA
replace elements with appropriate indexes with foo$a
foo$d[ind] <- foo$a[ind]

Answer 3

library(dplyr)
library(purrr)
# example dataset
foo<-data.frame(t = 1:15,
a = sample(1:15),
b = c(1,1,1,1,1,4,4,4,4,1,1,1,1,1,1),
c = sample(1:15))
# function to get indices of interest
# for a given index x go 2 positions back and 3 forward
# keep only positive indices
GetIDsBeforeAfter = function(x) {
v = (x-2) : (x+3)
v[v > 0]
}
foo %>% # from your dataset
filter(b > 1) %>% # keep rows where b > 1
pull(t) %>% # get the positions
map(GetIDsBeforeAfter) %>% # for each position apply the function
unlist() %>% # unlist all sets indices
unique() -> ids_to_remain # keep unique ones and save them in a vector
foo$d = foo$c # copy column c as d
foo$d[-ids_to_remain] = NA # put NA to all positions not in our vector
foo
# t a b c d
# 1 1 5 1 8 NA
# 2 2 6 1 14 NA
# 3 3 4 1 10 NA
# 4 4 1 1 7 7
# 5 5 10 1 5 5
# 6 6 8 4 9 9
# 7 7 9 4 15 15
# 8 8 3 4 6 6
# 9 9 7 4 2 2
# 10 10 12 1 3 3
# 11 11 11 1 1 1
# 12 12 15 1 4 4
# 13 13 14 1 11 NA
# 14 14 13 1 13 NA
# 15 15 2 1 12 NA