merge two data frames based on matching rows of multiple columns - r

Below is the summary and structure of the two data sets I tried to merge claimants and unemp, they can me found here claims.csv and unemp.csv
> tbl_df(claimants)
# A tibble: 6,960 × 5
X County Month Year Claimants
<int> <fctr> <fctr> <int> <int>
1 1 ALAMEDA Jan 2007 13034
2 2 ALPINE Jan 2007 12
3 3 AMADOR Jan 2007 487
4 4 BUTTE Jan 2007 3496
5 5 CALAVERAS Jan 2007 644
6 6 COLUSA Jan 2007 1244
7 7 CONTRA COSTA Jan 2007 8475
8 8 DEL NORTE Jan 2007 328
9 9 EL DORADO Jan 2007 2120
10 10 FRESNO Jan 2007 19974
# ... with 6,950 more rows
> tbl_df(unemp)
# A tibble: 6,960 × 7
County Year Month laborforce emplab unemp unemprate
* <chr> <int> <chr> <int> <int> <int> <dbl>
1 Alameda 2007 Jan 743100 708300 34800 4.7
2 Alameda 2007 Feb 744800 711000 33800 4.5
3 Alameda 2007 Mar 746600 713200 33300 4.5
4 Alameda 2007 Apr 738200 705800 32400 4.4
5 Alameda 2007 May 739100 707300 31800 4.3
6 Alameda 2007 Jun 744900 709100 35800 4.8
7 Alameda 2007 Jul 749600 710900 38700 5.2
8 Alameda 2007 Aug 746700 709600 37000 5.0
9 Alameda 2007 Sep 748200 712100 36000 4.8
10 Alameda 2007 Oct 749000 713000 36100 4.8
# ... with 6,950 more rows
I thought first I should change all the factor columns to character columns.
unemp[sapply(unemp, is.factor)] <- lapply(unemp[sapply(unemp, is.factor)], as.character)
claimants[sapply(claimants, is.factor)] <- lapply(claimants[sapply(claimants, is.factor)], as.character)
m <-merge(unemp, claimants, by = c("County", "Month", "Year"))
dim(m)
[1] 0 10
In the output of dim(m), 0 rows are in the resulting dataframe. All the 6960 rows should match each other uniquely.
To verify that the two data frames have unique combination of the the 3 columns 'County', 'Month', and 'Year' I reorder and rearrange these columns within the dataframes as below:
a <- claimants[ order(claimants[,"County"], claimants[,"Month"], claimants[,"Year"]), ]
b <- unemp[ order(unemp[,"County"], unemp[,"Month"], unemp[,"Year"]), ]
b[2:4] <- b[c(2,4,3)]
a[2:4] %in% b[2:4]
[1] TRUE TRUE TRUE
This last output confirms that all 'County', 'Month', and 'Year' columns match each other in these two dataframes.
I have tried looking into the documentation for merge and could not gather where do I go wrong, I have also tried the inner_join function from dplyr:
> m <- inner_join(unemp[2:8], claimants[2:5])
Joining, by = c("County", "Year", "Month")
> dim(m)
[1] 0 8
I am missing something and don't know what, would appreciate the help with understanding this, I know I should not have to rearrange the rows by the three columns to run merge R should identify the matching rows and merge the non-matching columns.

The claimants df has the counties in all uppercase, the unemp df has them in lower case.
I used the options(stringsAsFactors = FALSE) when reading in your data. A few suggestions drop the X column in both, it doesn't seem useful.
options(stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
claims <- read.csv("claims.csv",header=TRUE)
claims$X <- NULL
unemp <- read.csv("unemp.csv",header=TRUE)
unemp$X <- NULL
unemp$County <- toupper(unemp$County)
m <- inner_join(unemp, claims)
dim(m)
# [1] 6960 8

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How to use a loop to create panel data by subsetting and merging a lot of different data frames in R?

I've looked around but I can't find an answer to this!
I've imported a large number of datasets to R.
Each dataset contains information for a single year (ex. df_2012, df_2013, df_2014 etc).
All the datasets have the same variables/columns (ex. varA_2012 in df_2012 corresponds to varA_2013 in df_2013).
I want to create a df with my id variable and varA_2012, varB_2012, varA_2013, varB_2013, varA_2014, varB_2014 etc
I'm trying to create a loop that helps me extract the few columns that I'm interested in (varA_XXXX, varB_XXXX) in each data frame and then do a full join based on my id var.
I haven't used R in a very long time...
So far, I've tried this:
id <- c("France", "Belgium", "Spain")
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varB_2012 <- c(7,2,9)
varC_2012 <- c(1,56,0)
varD_2012 <- c(13,55,8)
varA_2013 <- c(34,3,56)
varB_2013 <- c(2,53,5)
varC_2013 <- c(24,3,45)
varD_2013 <- c(27,13,8)
varA_2014 <- c(9,10,5)
varB_2014 <- c(95,30,75)
varC_2014 <- c(99,0,51)
varD_2014 <- c(9,40,1)
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df_2013 <-data.frame(id, varA_2013, varB_2013, varC_2013, varD_2013)
df_2014 <-data.frame(id, varA_2014, varB_2014, varC_2014, varD_2014)
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list2env(df_[i], .GlobalEnv)
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I know that there are probably loads of errors in here.
Here are a couple of options; however, it's unclear what you want the expected output to look like.
If you want a wide format, then we can use tidyverse to do:
library(tidyverse)
results <-
map(list(df_2012, df_2013, df_2014), function(x)
x %>% dplyr::select(id, starts_with("varA"), starts_with("varB"))) %>%
reduce(., function(x, y)
left_join(x, y, all = TRUE, by = "id"))
Output
id varA_2012 varB_2012 varA_2013 varB_2013 varA_2014 varB_2014
1 Belgium 2 2 3 53 10 30
2 France 1 7 34 2 9 95
3 Spain 3 9 56 5 5 75
However, if you need it in a long format, then we could pivot the data:
results %>%
pivot_longer(-id, names_to = c("variable", "year"), names_sep = "_")
Output
id variable year value
<chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl>
1 France varA 2012 1
2 France varB 2012 7
3 France varA 2013 34
4 France varB 2013 2
5 France varA 2014 9
6 France varB 2014 95
7 Belgium varA 2012 2
8 Belgium varB 2012 2
9 Belgium varA 2013 3
10 Belgium varB 2013 53
11 Belgium varA 2014 10
12 Belgium varB 2014 30
13 Spain varA 2012 3
14 Spain varB 2012 9
15 Spain varA 2013 56
16 Spain varB 2013 5
17 Spain varA 2014 5
18 Spain varB 2014 75
Or if using base R for the wide format, then we can do:
results <-
lapply(list(df_2012, df_2013, df_2014), function(x)
subset(x, select = c("id", names(x)[startsWith(names(x), "varA")], names(x)[startsWith(names(x), "varB")])))
results <-
Reduce(function(x, y)
merge(x, y, all = TRUE, by = "id"), results)
From your initial for loop attempt, it seems the code below may help
> (df <- Reduce(merge, list(df_2012, df_2013, df_2014)))[grepl("^(id|var(A|B))",names(df))]
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2 France 1 7 34 2 9 95
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I have a dataframe for which I have date data and cumulative counts.
I am trying to do a reverse of cumsum to get the daily counts but also getting the counts per group.
I am trying to go from dataframe A to dataframe B.
I am using R and tidyr.
Here is the code :
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# A tibble: 6 x 4
# Groups: state [2]
# cum_count state Year daily_count
# <dbl> <fct> <int> <dbl>
#1 5 Alabama 2012 5
#2 14 Alabama 2013 9
#3 50 Alabama 2014 36
#4 5 NY 2012 5
#5 14 NY 2013 9
#6 50 NY 2014 36
Or for this purpose, use lag and subtract from the column itself
df %>%
group_by(state)%>%
mutate(daily_count = replace_na(cum_count - lag(cum_count), first(cum_count)))

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3 1222 1979 5 3 1979-05-03 U 0 F
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R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200)
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# <int> <date> <dbl>
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#2 2 1978-09-01 1979
#3 3 1978-09-02 1979
#4 4 1979-08-31 1979
#5 5 1979-09-01 1980
#6 6 1979-09-02 1980
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How to subtract each Country's value by year

I have data for each Country's happiness (https://www.kaggle.com/unsdsn/world-happiness), and I made data for each year of the reports. Now, I don't know how to get the values for each year subtracted from each other e.g. how did happiness rank change from 2015 to 2017/2016 to 2017? I'd like to make a new df of differences for each.
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head(df, n=10)
tail(df, n=10)
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df16 <- df[df['Year']=='2016',]
df17 <- df[df['Year']=='2017',]
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Don't have a clear path to accomplish what I want but it would look like
df16_to_17
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Yemen (Yemen[Happiness Rank in 2017] - Yemen[Happiness Rank in 2016])
USA (USA[Happiness Rank in 2017] - USA[Happiness Rank in 2016])
(other countries)
df15_to_16
Country Happiness.Rank ...(other columns)
Yemen (Yemen[Happiness Rank in 2016] - Yemen[Happiness Rank in 2015])
USA (USA[Happiness Rank in 2016] - USA[Happiness Rank in 2015])
(other countries)
It's very straightforward with dplyr, and involves grouping by country and then finding the differences between consecutive values with base R's diff. Just make sure to use df and not df15, etc.:
library(dplyr)
rank_diff_df <- df %>%
group_by(Country) %>%
mutate(Rank.Diff = c(NA, diff(Happiness.Rank)))
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If you would like to view the differences it would make sense to drop some variables and rearrange the data:
rank_diff_df %>%
select(Year, Country, Happiness.Rank, Rank.Diff) %>%
arrange(Country)
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<chr> <fct> <int> <int>
1 2015 Afghanistan 153 NA
2 2016 Afghanistan 154 1
3 2017 Afghanistan 141 -13
4 2015 Albania 95 NA
5 2016 Albania 109 14
6 2017 Albania 109 0
7 2015 Algeria 68 NA
8 2016 Algeria 38 -30
9 2017 Algeria 53 15
10 2015 Angola 137 NA
# … with 460 more rows
The above data frame will work well with ggplot2 if you are planning on plotting the results.
If you don't feel comfortable with dplyr you can use base R's merge to combine the dataframes, and then create a new dataframe with the differences as columns:
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df_wide$Happiness.Rank.x,
Y2016.2017 = df_wide$Happiness.Rank -
df_wide$Happiness.Rank.y
)
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head(rank_diff_df, 10)
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1 Afghanistan 1 -13
2 Albania 14 0
3 Algeria -30 15
4 Angola 4 -1
5 Argentina -4 -2
6 Armenia -6 0
7 Australia -1 1
8 Austria -1 1
9 Azerbaijan 1 4
10 Bahrain -7 -1
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library(dplyr)
data2015$Year <- 2015
data2016$Year <- 2016
data2017$Year <- 2017
df <- bind_rows(data2015, data2016, data2017)
data <- df[keepcols]
data %>%
arrange(Country, Year) %>%
group_by(Country) %>%
filter(n() == 3) %>%
mutate_at(-1, ~. - lag(.)) #OR
#mutate_at(-1, ~c(NA, diff(.)))
# A tibble: 438 x 10
# Groups: Country [146]
# Country Happiness.Rank Economy..GDP.pe… Family Health..Life.Ex… Freedom
# <chr> <int> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
# 1 Afghan… NA NA NA NA NA
# 2 Afghan… 1 0.0624 -0.192 -0.130 -0.0698
# 3 Afghan… -13 0.0192 0.471 0.00731 -0.0581
# 4 Albania NA NA NA NA NA
# 5 Albania 14 0.0766 -0.303 -0.0832 -0.0387
# 6 Albania 0 0.0409 0.302 0.00109 0.0628
# 7 Algeria NA NA NA NA NA
# 8 Algeria -30 0.113 -0.245 0.00038 -0.0757
# 9 Algeria 15 0.0392 0.313 -0.000455 0.0233
#10 Angola NA NA NA NA NA
# … with 428 more rows, and 4 more variables: Trust..Government.Corruption. <dbl>,
# Generosity <dbl>, Dystopia.Residual <dbl>, Year <dbl>
The value of first row for each Year would always be NA, rest of the values would be subtracted by it's previous values.

How to create a loop for sum calculations which then are inserted into a new row?

I have tried to find a solution via similar topics, but haven't found anything suitable. This may be due to the search terms I have used. If I have missed something, please accept my apologies.
Here is a excerpt of my data UN_ (the provided sample should be sufficient):
country year sector UN
AT 1990 1 1.407555
AT 1990 2 1.037137
AT 1990 3 4.769618
AT 1990 4 2.455139
AT 1990 5 2.238618
AT 1990 Total 7.869005
AT 1991 1 1.484667
AT 1991 2 1.001578
AT 1991 3 4.625927
AT 1991 4 2.515453
AT 1991 5 2.702081
AT 1991 Total 8.249567
....
BE 1994 1 3.008115
BE 1994 2 1.550344
BE 1994 3 1.080667
BE 1994 4 1.768645
BE 1994 5 7.208295
BE 1994 Total 1.526016
BE 1995 1 2.958820
BE 1995 2 1.571759
BE 1995 3 1.116049
BE 1995 4 1.888952
BE 1995 5 7.654881
BE 1995 Total 1.547446
....
What I want to do is, to add another row with UN_$sector = Residual. The value of residual will be (UN_$sector = Total) - (the sum of column UN for the sectors c("1", "2", "3", "4", "5")) for a given year AND country.
This is how it should look like:
country year sector UN
AT 1990 1 1.407555
AT 1990 2 1.037137
AT 1990 3 4.769618
AT 1990 4 2.455139
AT 1990 5 2.238618
----> AT 1990 Residual TO BE CALCULATED
AT 1990 Total 7.869005
As I don't want to write many, many lines of code I'm looking for a way to automate this. I was told about loops, but can't really follow the concept at the moment.
Thank you very much for any type of help!!
Best,
Constantin
PS: (for Parfait)
country year sector UN ETS
UK 2012 1 190336512 NA
UK 2012 2 18107910 NA
UK 2012 3 8333564 NA
UK 2012 4 11269017 NA
UK 2012 5 2504751 NA
UK 2012 Total 580957306 NA
UK 2013 1 177882200 NA
UK 2013 2 20353347 NA
UK 2013 3 8838575 NA
UK 2013 4 11051398 NA
UK 2013 5 2684909 NA
UK 2013 Total 566322778 NA
Consider calculating residual first and then stack it with other pieces of data:
# CALCULATE RESIDUALS BY MERGED COLUMNS
agg <- within(merge(aggregate(UN ~ country + year, data = subset(df, sector!='Total'), sum),
aggregate(UN ~ country + year, data = subset(df, sector=='Total'), sum),
by=c("country", "year")),
{UN <- UN.y - UN.x
sector = 'Residual'})
# ROW BIND DIFFERENT PIECES
final_df <- rbind(subset(df, sector!='Total'),
agg[c("country", "year", "sector", "UN")],
subset(df, sector=='Total'))
# ORDER ROWS AND RESET ROWNAMES
final_df <- with(final_df, final_df[order(country, year, as.character(sector)),])
row.names(final_df) <- NULL
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final_df
# country year sector UN
# 1 AT 1990 1 1.407555
# 2 AT 1990 2 1.037137
# 3 AT 1990 3 4.769618
# 4 AT 1990 4 2.455139
# 5 AT 1990 5 2.238618
# 6 AT 1990 Residual -4.039062
# 7 AT 1990 Total 7.869005
# 8 AT 1991 1 1.484667
# 9 AT 1991 2 1.001578
# 10 AT 1991 3 4.625927
# 11 AT 1991 4 2.515453
# 12 AT 1991 5 2.702081
# 13 AT 1991 Residual -4.080139
# 14 AT 1991 Total 8.249567
# 15 BE 1994 1 3.008115
# 16 BE 1994 2 1.550344
# 17 BE 1994 3 1.080667
# 18 BE 1994 4 1.768645
# 19 BE 1994 5 7.208295
# 20 BE 1994 Residual -13.090050
# 21 BE 1994 Total 1.526016
# 22 BE 1995 1 2.958820
# 23 BE 1995 2 1.571759
# 24 BE 1995 3 1.116049
# 25 BE 1995 4 1.888952
# 26 BE 1995 5 7.654881
# 27 BE 1995 Residual -13.643015
# 28 BE 1995 Total 1.547446
I think there are multiple ways you can do this. What I may recommend is to take advantage of the tidyverse suite of packages which includes dplyr.
Without getting too far into what dplyr and tidyverse can achieve, we can talk about the power of dplyr's inline commands group_by(...), summarise(...), arrange(...) and bind_rows(...) functions. Also, there are tons of great tutorials, cheat sheets, and documentation on all tidyverse packages.
Although it is less and less relevant these days, we generally want to avoid for loops in R. Therefore, we will create a new data frame which contains all of the Residual values then bring it back into your original data frame.
Step 1: Calculating all residual values
We want to calculate the sum of UN values, grouped by country and year. We can achieve this by this value
res_UN = UN_ %>% group_by(country, year) %>% summarise(UN = sum(UN, na.rm = T))
Step 2: Add sector column to res_UN with value 'residual'
This should yield a data frame which contains country, year, and UN, we now need to add a column sector which the value 'Residual' to satisfy your specifications.
res_UN$sector = 'Residual'
Step 3 : Add res_UN back to UN_ and order accordingly
res_UN and UN_ now have the same columns and they can now be added back together.
UN_ = bind_rows(UN_, res_UN) %>% arrange(country, year, sector)
Piecing this all together, should answer your question and can be achieved in a couple lines!
TLDR:
res_UN = UN_ %>% group_by(country, year) %>% summarise(UN = sum(UN, na.rm = T))`
res_UN$sector = 'Residual'
UN_ = bind_rows(UN_, res_UN) %>% arrange(country, year, sector)

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