Seems like this very simple maneuver used to work for me, and now it simply doesn't. A dummy version of the problem:
df <- data.frame(x = 1:5) # create simple dataframe
df
x
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
df$y <- c(1:5) # adding a new column with a vector of the exact same length. Works out like it should
df
x y
1 1 1
2 2 2
3 3 3
4 4 4
5 5 5
df$z <- c(1:4) # trying to add a new colum, this time with a vector with less elements than there are rows in the dataframe.
Error in `$<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, "z", value = 1:4) :
replacement has 4 rows, data has 5
I was expecting this to work with the following result:
x y z
1 1 1 1
2 2 2 2
3 3 3 3
4 4 4 4
5 5 5 1
I.e. the shorter vector should just start repeating itself automatically. I'm pretty certain this used to work for me (it's in a script that I've been running a hundred times before without problems). Now I can't even get the above dummy example to work like I want to. What am I missing?
If the vector can be evenly recycled, into the data.frame, you do not get and error or a warning:
df <- data.frame(x = 1:10)
df$z <- 1:5
This may be what you were experiencing before.
You can get your vector to fit as you mention with rep_len:
df$y <- rep_len(1:3, length.out=10)
This results in
df
x z y
1 1 1 1
2 2 2 2
3 3 3 3
4 4 4 1
5 5 5 2
6 6 1 3
7 7 2 1
8 8 3 2
9 9 4 3
10 10 5 1
Note that in place of rep_len, you could use the more common rep function:
df$y <- rep(1:3,len=10)
From the help file for rep:
rep.int and rep_len are faster simplified versions for two common cases. They are not generic.
If the total number of rows is a multiple of the length of your new vector, it works fine. When it is not, it does not work everywhere. In particular, probably you have used this type of recycling with matrices:
data.frame(1:6, 1:3, 1:4) # not a multiply
# Error in data.frame(1:6, 1:3, 1:4) :
# arguments imply differing number of rows: 6, 3, 4
data.frame(1:6, 1:3) # a multiple
# X1.6 X1.3
# 1 1 1
# 2 2 2
# 3 3 3
# 4 4 1
# 5 5 2
# 6 6 3
cbind(1:6, 1:3, 1:4) # works even with not a multiple
# [,1] [,2] [,3]
# [1,] 1 1 1
# [2,] 2 2 2
# [3,] 3 3 3
# [4,] 4 1 4
# [5,] 5 2 1
# [6,] 6 3 2
# Warning message:
# In cbind(1:6, 1:3, 1:4) :
# number of rows of result is not a multiple of vector length (arg 3)
Related
Suppose I have a dataframe that looks like this:
> data <- data.frame(x = c(1,1,2,2,3,4,5,6), y = c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8))
> data
x y
1 1 1
2 1 2
3 2 3
4 2 4
5 3 5
6 4 6
7 5 7
8 6 8
I want to use mutate and case_when to create a new id variable that will identify rows using the variable x, and give rows missing x a unique id. In other words, I should have the same id for rows one and two, rows three and four, while rows 5-8 should have their own unique ids. Suppose I want to generate these id values with a function:
id_function <- function(x, n){
set.seed(x)
res <- character(n)
for(i in seq(n)){
res[i] <- paste0(sample(c(letters, LETTERS, 0:9), 32), collapse="")
}
res
}
id_function(1, 1)
[1] "4dMaHwQnrYGu0PTjgioXKOyW75NRZtcf"
I am trying to use this function on the RHS of a case_when expression like this:
data %>%
mutate(my_id = id_function(1234, nrow(.)),
my_id = dplyr::case_when(!is.na(x) ~ id_function(x, 1),
TRUE ~ my_id))
But the RHS does not seem to be vectorized and I get the same value for all non-missing values of x:
x y my_id
1 1 1 4dMaHwQnrYGu0PTjgioXKOyW75NRZtcf
2 1 2 4dMaHwQnrYGu0PTjgioXKOyW75NRZtcf
3 2 3 4dMaHwQnrYGu0PTjgioXKOyW75NRZtcf
4 2 4 4dMaHwQnrYGu0PTjgioXKOyW75NRZtcf
5 NA 5 0vnws5giVNIzp86BHKuOZ9ch4dtL3Fqy
6 NA 6 IbKU6DjvW9ypitl7qc25Lr4sOwEfghdk
7 NA 7 8oqQMPx6IrkGhXv4KlUtYfcJ5Z1RCaDy
8 NA 8 BRsjumlCEGS6v4ANrw1bxLynOKkF90ao
I'm sure there's a way to vectorize the RHS, what am I doing wrong? Is there an easier approach to solving this problem?
I guess rowwise() would do the trick:
data %>%
rowwise() %>%
mutate(my_id = id_function(x, 1))
x y my_id
1 1 4dMaHwQnrYGu0PTjgioXKOyW75NRZtcf
1 2 4dMaHwQnrYGu0PTjgioXKOyW75NRZtcf
2 3 uof7FhqC3lOXkacp54MGZJLUR6siSKDb
2 4 uof7FhqC3lOXkacp54MGZJLUR6siSKDb
3 5 e5lMJNQEhtj4VY1KbCR9WUiPrpy7vfXo
4 6 3kYcgR7109DLbxatQIAKXFeovN8pnuUV
5 7 bQ4ok7OuDgscLUlpzKAivBj2T3m6wrWy
6 8 0jSn3Jcb2HDA5uhvG8g1ytsmRpl6CQWN
purrr map functions can be used for non-vectorized functions. The following will give you a similar result. map2 will take the two arguments expected by your id_function.
library(tidyverse)
data %>%
mutate(my_id = map2(x, 1, id_function))
Output
x y my_id
1 1 1 4dMaHwQnrYGu0PTjgioXKOyW75NRZtcf
2 1 2 4dMaHwQnrYGu0PTjgioXKOyW75NRZtcf
3 2 3 uof7FhqC3lOXkacp54MGZJLUR6siSKDb
4 2 4 uof7FhqC3lOXkacp54MGZJLUR6siSKDb
5 3 5 e5lMJNQEhtj4VY1KbCR9WUiPrpy7vfXo
6 4 6 3kYcgR7109DLbxatQIAKXFeovN8pnuUV
7 5 7 bQ4ok7OuDgscLUlpzKAivBj2T3m6wrWy
8 6 8 0jSn3Jcb2HDA5uhvG8g1ytsmRpl6CQWN
I would like to list all unique combinations of vectors of length 3 where each element of the vector can range between 1 to 9.
First I list all such combinations:
df <- expand.grid(1:9, 1:9, 1:9)
Then I would like to remove the rows that contain repetitions.
For example:
1 1 9
9 1 1
1 9 1
should only be included once.
In other words if two lines have the same numbers and the same number of each number then it should only be included once.
Note that
8 8 8 or
9 9 9 is fine as long as it only appears once.
Based on your approach and the idea to remove repetitions:
df <- expand.grid(1:2, 1:2, 1:2)
# Var1 Var2 Var3
# 1 1 1 1
# 2 2 1 1
# 3 1 2 1
# 4 2 2 1
# 5 1 1 2
# 6 2 1 2
# 7 1 2 2
# 8 2 2 2
df2 <- unique(t(apply(df, 1, sort))) #class matrix
# [,1] [,2] [,3]
# [1,] 1 1 1
# [2,] 1 1 2
# [3,] 1 2 2
# [4,] 2 2 2
df2 <- as.data.frame(df2) #class data.frame
There are probably more efficient methods, but if I understand you correct, that is the result you want.
Maybe something like this (since your data frame is not large, so it does not pain!):
len <- apply(df,1,function(x) length(unique(x)))
res <- rbind(df[len!=2,], df[unique(apply(df[len==2,],1,prod)),])
Here is what is done:
Get the number of unique elements per row
Comprises two steps:
First argument of rbind: Those with length either 1 (e.g. 1 1 1, 7 7 7, etc) or 3 (e.g. 5 8 7, 2 4 9, etc) are included in the final results res.
Second argument of rbind: For those in which the number of unique elements are 2 (e.g. 1 1 9, 3 5 3, etc), we apply product per row and take whose unique products (cause, for example, the product of 3 3 5 and 3 5 3 and 5 3 3 are the same)
I am trying to convert a simple list of varying lengths into a data frame as shown below. I would like to populate the missing values with NaN. I tried using ldply, rbind, as.data.frame() but I failed to get it into the format I want. Please help.
x=c(1,2)
y=c(1,2,3)
z=c(1,2,3,4)
a=list(x,y,z)
a
[[1]]
[1] 1 2
[[2]]
[1] 1 2 3
[[3]]
[1] 1 2 3 4
Output should be:
x y z
1 1 1
2 2 2
NaN 3 3
NaN NaN 4
Using rbind.fill.matrix from "plyr" gets you very close to what you're looking for:
> library(plyr)
> t(rbind.fill.matrix(lapply(a, t)))
[,1] [,2] [,3]
1 1 1 1
2 2 2 2
3 NA 3 3
4 NA NA 4
This is a lot of code, so not as clean as Ananda's solution, but it's all base R:
maxl <- max(sapply(a,length))
out <- do.call(cbind, lapply(a,function(x) x[1:maxl]))
# out <- matrix(unlist(lapply(a,function(x) x[1:maxl])), nrow=maxl) #another way
out <- as.data.frame(out)
#names(out) <- names(a)
Result:
> out
V1 V2 V3
1 1 1 1
2 2 2 2
3 NA 3 3
4 NA NA 4
Note: names of the resulting df will depend on the names of your list (a), which doesn't currently have names.
I have a dataset stored in a text file in the format of bins of values followed by counts, like this:
var_a 1:5 5:12 7:9 9:14 ...
indicating that var_a took on the value 1 5 times in the dataset, 5 12 times, etc. Each variable is on its own line in that format.
I'd like to be able to perform calculations on this dataset in R, like quantiles, variance, and so on. Is there an easy way to load the data from the file and calculate these statistics? Ultimately I'd like to make a box-and-whisker plot for each variable.
Cheers!
You could use readLines to read in the data file
.x <- readLines(datafile)
I will create some dummy data, as I don't have the file. This should be the equivalent of the output of readLines
## dummy
.x <- c("var_a 1:5 5:12 7:9 9:14", 'var_b 1:5 2:12 3:9 4:14')
I split by spacing to get each
#split by space
space_split <- strsplit(.x, ' ')
# get the variable names (first in each list)
variable_names <- lapply(space_split,'[[',1)
# get the variable contents (everything but the first element in each list)
variable_contents <- lapply(space_split,'[',-1)
# a function to do the appropriate replicates
do_rep <- function(x){rep.int(x[1],x[2])}
# recreate the variables
variables <- lapply(variable_contents, function(x){
.list <- strsplit(x, ':')
unlist(lapply(lapply(.list, as.numeric), do_rep))
})
names(variables) <- variable_names
you could get the variance for each variable using
lapply(variables, var)
## $var_a
## [1] 6.848718
##
## $var_b
## [1] 1.138462
or get boxplots
boxplot(variables, ~.)
Not knowing the actual form that your data is in, I would probably use something like readLines to get each line in as a vector, then do something like the following:
# Some sample data
temp = c("var_a 1:5 5:12 7:9 9:14",
"var_b 1:7 4:9 3:11 2:10",
"var_c 2:5 5:14 6:6 3:14")
# Extract the names
NAMES = gsub("[0-9: ]", "", temp)
# Extract the data
temp_1 = strsplit(temp, " |:")
temp_1 = lapply(temp_1, function(x) as.numeric(x[-1]))
# "Expand" the data
temp_1 = lapply(1:length(temp_1),
function(x) rep(temp_1[[x]][seq(1, length(temp_1[[x]]), by=2)],
temp_1[[x]][seq(2, length(temp_1[[x]]), by=2)]))
names(temp_1) = NAMES
temp_1
# $var_a
# [1] 1 1 1 1 1 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
#
# $var_b
# [1] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
#
# $var_c
# [1] 2 2 2 2 2 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Starting with a data.frame...
df = data.frame(k=c(1,5,4,7,6), v=c(3,1,4,1,5))
> df
k v
1 1 3
2 5 1
3 4 4
4 7 1
5 6 5
I might run some number of arbitrary manipulations...
> foo1 = df[df$k>3,]
> foo2 = head(foo1[order(foo1$v),], 2)
> foo2
k v
2 5 1
4 7 1
At this point foo2 has somehow retained the original row numbers fromdf (in this case 2 and 4).
How do I extract these?
> insert_magic_function_here(foo2)
[1] 2 4
I think you're looking for rownames.