I am not sure how to handle NA within Julia DataFrames.
For example with the following DataFrame:
> import DataFrames
> a = DataFrames.#data([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]);
> b = DataFrames.#data([3, 4, 5, 6, NA]);
> ndf = DataFrames.DataFrame(a=a, b=b)
I can successfully execute the following operation on column :a
> ndf[ndf[:a] .== 4, :]
but if I try the same operation on :b I get an error NAException("cannot index an array with a DataArray containing NA values").
> ndf[ndf[:b] .== 4, :]
NAException("cannot index an array with a DataArray containing NA values")
while loading In[108], in expression starting on line 1
in to_index at /Users/abisen/.julia/v0.3/DataArrays/src/indexing.jl:85
in getindex at /Users/abisen/.julia/v0.3/DataArrays/src/indexing.jl:210
in getindex at /Users/abisen/.julia/v0.3/DataFrames/src/dataframe/dataframe.jl:268
Which is because of the presence of NA value.
My question is how should DataFrames with NA should typically be handled? I can understand that > or < operation against NA would be undefined but == should work (no?).
What's your desired behavior here? If you want to do selections like this you can make the condition (not a NAN) AND (equal to 4). If the first test fails then the second one never happens.
using DataFrames
a = #data([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]);
b = #data([3, 4, 5, 6, NA]);
ndf = DataFrame(a=a, b=b)
ndf[(!isna(ndf[:b]))&(ndf[:b].==4),:]
In some cases you might just want to drop all rows with NAs in certain columns
ndf = ndf[!isna(ndf[:b]),:]
Regarding to this question I asked before, you can change this NA behavior directly in the modules sourcecode if you want. In the file indexing.jl there is a function named Base.to_index(A::DataArray) beginning at line 75, where you can alter the code to set NA's in the boolean array to false. For example you can do the following:
# Indexing with NA throws an error
function Base.to_index(A::DataArray)
A[A.na] = false
any(A.na) && throw(NAException("cannot index an array with a DataArray containing NA values"))
Base.to_index(A.data)
end
Ignoring NA's with isna() will cause a less readable sourcecode and in big formulas, a performance loss:
#timeit ndf[(!isna(ndf[:b])) & (ndf[:b] .== 4),:] #3.68 µs per loop
#timeit ndf[ndf[:b] .== 4, :] #2.32 µs per loop
## 71x179 2D Array
#timeit dm[(!isna(dm)) & (dm .< 3)] = 1 #14.55 µs per loop
#timeit dm[dm .< 3] = 1 #754.79 ns per loop
In many cases you want to treat NA as separate instances, i.e. assume that that everything that is NA is "equal" and everything else is different.
If this is the behaviour you want, current DataFrames API doesn't help you much, as both (NA == NA) and (NA == 1) returns NA instead of their expected boolean results.
This makes extremely tedious DataFrame filters using loops:
function filter(df,c)
for r in eachrow(df)
if (isna(c) && isna(r:[c])) || ( !isna(r[:c]) && r[:c] == c )
...
and breaks select-like functionalities in DataFramesMeta.jl and Query.jl when NA values are present or requested for..
One workaround is to use isequal(a,b) in place of a==b
test = #where(df, isequal.(:a,"cc"), isequal.(:b,NA) ) #from DataFramesMeta.jl
I think the new syntax in Julia is to use ismissing:
# drop NAs
df = DataFrame(col=[0,1,1,missing,0,1])
df = df[.!ismissing.(df[:col]),:]
Related
I'm trying to extract some characters from a vector called "identhog" which is allocated in the table "E". But I want to extract some characters according with its text length. Then if the lenght of the text in the vector is 10 I want to extract some characters, otherwise I want to extract another characters from another position.
if (nchar(E$identhog)==10) {
E <- mutate(E,prueba2= substr(E$identhog, 2, 6))
} else {
E <- mutate(E, prueba2=substr(E$identhog, 3,7))
}
I´m using an IF ELSE conditional, but When I run the code the following message shows up.
"Warning message: In if (nchar(E$identhog) == 10) { : the condition has length > 1 and only
the first element will be used"
And R ignores my whole IF conditional and just run:
E <- mutate(E,prueba2= substr(E$identhog, 2, 6))
How can I fix this? I have investigated about this problem and it seems that happens because I'm attempting to use an if() function to check for some condition, but it's passing a vector to the if() function instead of individual elements.
I understand that R is just checking one element in a vector at one time, but I want to check each individual element.
Some users tell that the command "ifelse" is a solution, but it is not working with my data for the amount of information it has.
ifelse((nchar(E$identhog)==10),
E <- mutate(E,prueba2= substr(E$identhog, 2, 6)),
E <- mutate(E, prueba2=substr(E$identhog, 3,7)))
Any solution?
You are using ifelse outside mutate, here an example of how to use it with dplyr.
library(dplyr)
df <- data.frame(string = c("1234567890","12345678901"))
df %>%
mutate(
prueba2 = if_else(
condition = nchar(string) == 10,
true = substr(string, 2, 6),
false = substr(string, 3, 7)
)
)
string prueba2
1 1234567890 23456
2 12345678901 34567
I have a data frame named "mydata" that looks like this this:
A B C D
1. 5 4 4 4
2. 5 4 4 4
3. 5 4 4 4
4. 5 4 4 4
5. 5 4 4 4
6. 5 4 4 4
7. 5 4 4 4
I'd like to delete row 2,4,6. For example, like this:
A B C D
1. 5 4 4 4
3. 5 4 4 4
5. 5 4 4 4
7. 5 4 4 4
The key idea is you form a set of the rows you want to remove, and keep the complement of that set.
In R, the complement of a set is given by the '-' operator.
So, assuming the data.frame is called myData:
myData[-c(2, 4, 6), ] # notice the -
Of course, don't forget to "reassign" myData if you wanted to drop those rows entirely---otherwise, R just prints the results.
myData <- myData[-c(2, 4, 6), ]
You can also work with a so called boolean vector, aka logical:
row_to_keep = c(TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE)
myData = myData[row_to_keep,]
Note that the ! operator acts as a NOT, i.e. !TRUE == FALSE:
myData = myData[!row_to_keep,]
This seems a bit cumbersome in comparison to #mrwab's answer (+1 btw :)), but a logical vector can be generated on the fly, e.g. where a column value exceeds a certain value:
myData = myData[myData$A > 4,]
myData = myData[!myData$A > 4,] # equal to myData[myData$A <= 4,]
You can transform a boolean vector to a vector of indices:
row_to_keep = which(myData$A > 4)
Finally, a very neat trick is that you can use this kind of subsetting not only for extraction, but also for assignment:
myData$A[myData$A > 4,] <- NA
where column A is assigned NA (not a number) where A exceeds 4.
Problems with deleting by row number
For quick and dirty analyses, you can delete rows of a data.frame by number as per the top answer. I.e.,
newdata <- myData[-c(2, 4, 6), ]
However, if you are trying to write a robust data analysis script, you should generally avoid deleting rows by numeric position. This is because the order of the rows in your data may change in the future. A general principle of a data.frame or database tables is that the order of the rows should not matter. If the order does matter, this should be encoded in an actual variable in the data.frame.
For example, imagine you imported a dataset and deleted rows by numeric position after inspecting the data and identifying the row numbers of the rows that you wanted to delete. However, at some later point, you go into the raw data and have a look around and reorder the data. Your row deletion code will now delete the wrong rows, and worse, you are unlikely to get any errors warning you that this has occurred.
Better strategy
A better strategy is to delete rows based on substantive and stable properties of the row. For example, if you had an id column variable that uniquely identifies each case, you could use that.
newdata <- myData[ !(myData$id %in% c(2,4,6)), ]
Other times, you will have a formal exclusion criteria that could be specified, and you could use one of the many subsetting tools in R to exclude cases based on that rule.
Create id column in your data frame or use any column name to identify the row. Using index is not fair to delete.
Use subset function to create new frame.
updated_myData <- subset(myData, id!= 6)
print (updated_myData)
updated_myData <- subset(myData, id %in% c(1, 3, 5, 7))
print (updated_myData)
By simplified sequence :
mydata[-(1:3 * 2), ]
By sequence :
mydata[seq(1, nrow(mydata), by = 2) , ]
By negative sequence :
mydata[-seq(2, nrow(mydata), by = 2) , ]
Or if you want to subset by selecting odd numbers:
mydata[which(1:nrow(mydata) %% 2 == 1) , ]
Or if you want to subset by selecting odd numbers, version 2:
mydata[which(1:nrow(mydata) %% 2 != 0) , ]
Or if you want to subset by filtering even numbers out:
mydata[!which(1:nrow(mydata) %% 2 == 0) , ]
Or if you want to subset by filtering even numbers out, version 2:
mydata[!which(1:nrow(mydata) %% 2 != 1) , ]
For completeness, I'll add that this can be done with dplyr as well using slice. The advantage of using this is that it can be part of a piped workflow.
df <- df %>%
.
.
slice(-c(2, 4, 6)) %>%
.
.
Of course, you can also use it without pipes.
df <- slice(df, -c(2, 4, 6))
The "not vector" format, -c(2, 4, 6) means to get everything that is not at rows 2, 4 and 6. For an example using a range, let's say you wanted to remove the first 5 rows, you could do slice(df, 6:n()). For more examples, see the docs.
Delete Dan from employee.data - No need to manage a new data.frame.
employee.data <- subset(employee.data, name!="Dan")
Here's a quick and dirty function to remove a row by index.
removeRowByIndex <- function(x, row_index) {
nr <- nrow(x)
if (nr < row_index) {
print('row_index exceeds number of rows')
} else if (row_index == 1)
{
return(x[2:nr, ])
} else if (row_index == nr) {
return(x[1:(nr - 1), ])
} else {
return (x[c(1:(row_index - 1), (row_index + 1):nr), ])
}
}
It's main flaw is it the row_index argument doesn't follow the R pattern of being a vector of values. There may be other problems as I only spent a couple of minutes writing and testing it, and have only started using R in the last few weeks. Any comments and improvements on this would be very welcome!
To identify by a name:
Call out the unique ID and identify the location in your data frame (DF).
Mark to delete. If the unique ID applies to multiple rows, all these rows will be removed.
Code:
Rows<-which(grepl("unique ID", DF$Column))
DF2<-DF[-c(Rows),]
DF2
Another approach when working with Unique IDs is to subset data:
*This came from an actual report where I wanted to remove the chemical standard
Chem.Report<-subset(Chem.Report, Chem_ID!="Standard")
Chem_ID is the column name.
The ! is important for excluding
I have a data frame named "mydata" that looks like this this:
A B C D
1. 5 4 4 4
2. 5 4 4 4
3. 5 4 4 4
4. 5 4 4 4
5. 5 4 4 4
6. 5 4 4 4
7. 5 4 4 4
I'd like to delete row 2,4,6. For example, like this:
A B C D
1. 5 4 4 4
3. 5 4 4 4
5. 5 4 4 4
7. 5 4 4 4
The key idea is you form a set of the rows you want to remove, and keep the complement of that set.
In R, the complement of a set is given by the '-' operator.
So, assuming the data.frame is called myData:
myData[-c(2, 4, 6), ] # notice the -
Of course, don't forget to "reassign" myData if you wanted to drop those rows entirely---otherwise, R just prints the results.
myData <- myData[-c(2, 4, 6), ]
You can also work with a so called boolean vector, aka logical:
row_to_keep = c(TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE)
myData = myData[row_to_keep,]
Note that the ! operator acts as a NOT, i.e. !TRUE == FALSE:
myData = myData[!row_to_keep,]
This seems a bit cumbersome in comparison to #mrwab's answer (+1 btw :)), but a logical vector can be generated on the fly, e.g. where a column value exceeds a certain value:
myData = myData[myData$A > 4,]
myData = myData[!myData$A > 4,] # equal to myData[myData$A <= 4,]
You can transform a boolean vector to a vector of indices:
row_to_keep = which(myData$A > 4)
Finally, a very neat trick is that you can use this kind of subsetting not only for extraction, but also for assignment:
myData$A[myData$A > 4,] <- NA
where column A is assigned NA (not a number) where A exceeds 4.
Problems with deleting by row number
For quick and dirty analyses, you can delete rows of a data.frame by number as per the top answer. I.e.,
newdata <- myData[-c(2, 4, 6), ]
However, if you are trying to write a robust data analysis script, you should generally avoid deleting rows by numeric position. This is because the order of the rows in your data may change in the future. A general principle of a data.frame or database tables is that the order of the rows should not matter. If the order does matter, this should be encoded in an actual variable in the data.frame.
For example, imagine you imported a dataset and deleted rows by numeric position after inspecting the data and identifying the row numbers of the rows that you wanted to delete. However, at some later point, you go into the raw data and have a look around and reorder the data. Your row deletion code will now delete the wrong rows, and worse, you are unlikely to get any errors warning you that this has occurred.
Better strategy
A better strategy is to delete rows based on substantive and stable properties of the row. For example, if you had an id column variable that uniquely identifies each case, you could use that.
newdata <- myData[ !(myData$id %in% c(2,4,6)), ]
Other times, you will have a formal exclusion criteria that could be specified, and you could use one of the many subsetting tools in R to exclude cases based on that rule.
Create id column in your data frame or use any column name to identify the row. Using index is not fair to delete.
Use subset function to create new frame.
updated_myData <- subset(myData, id!= 6)
print (updated_myData)
updated_myData <- subset(myData, id %in% c(1, 3, 5, 7))
print (updated_myData)
By simplified sequence :
mydata[-(1:3 * 2), ]
By sequence :
mydata[seq(1, nrow(mydata), by = 2) , ]
By negative sequence :
mydata[-seq(2, nrow(mydata), by = 2) , ]
Or if you want to subset by selecting odd numbers:
mydata[which(1:nrow(mydata) %% 2 == 1) , ]
Or if you want to subset by selecting odd numbers, version 2:
mydata[which(1:nrow(mydata) %% 2 != 0) , ]
Or if you want to subset by filtering even numbers out:
mydata[!which(1:nrow(mydata) %% 2 == 0) , ]
Or if you want to subset by filtering even numbers out, version 2:
mydata[!which(1:nrow(mydata) %% 2 != 1) , ]
For completeness, I'll add that this can be done with dplyr as well using slice. The advantage of using this is that it can be part of a piped workflow.
df <- df %>%
.
.
slice(-c(2, 4, 6)) %>%
.
.
Of course, you can also use it without pipes.
df <- slice(df, -c(2, 4, 6))
The "not vector" format, -c(2, 4, 6) means to get everything that is not at rows 2, 4 and 6. For an example using a range, let's say you wanted to remove the first 5 rows, you could do slice(df, 6:n()). For more examples, see the docs.
Delete Dan from employee.data - No need to manage a new data.frame.
employee.data <- subset(employee.data, name!="Dan")
Here's a quick and dirty function to remove a row by index.
removeRowByIndex <- function(x, row_index) {
nr <- nrow(x)
if (nr < row_index) {
print('row_index exceeds number of rows')
} else if (row_index == 1)
{
return(x[2:nr, ])
} else if (row_index == nr) {
return(x[1:(nr - 1), ])
} else {
return (x[c(1:(row_index - 1), (row_index + 1):nr), ])
}
}
It's main flaw is it the row_index argument doesn't follow the R pattern of being a vector of values. There may be other problems as I only spent a couple of minutes writing and testing it, and have only started using R in the last few weeks. Any comments and improvements on this would be very welcome!
To identify by a name:
Call out the unique ID and identify the location in your data frame (DF).
Mark to delete. If the unique ID applies to multiple rows, all these rows will be removed.
Code:
Rows<-which(grepl("unique ID", DF$Column))
DF2<-DF[-c(Rows),]
DF2
Another approach when working with Unique IDs is to subset data:
*This came from an actual report where I wanted to remove the chemical standard
Chem.Report<-subset(Chem.Report, Chem_ID!="Standard")
Chem_ID is the column name.
The ! is important for excluding
I am trying to assign a vector as an attribute for a vertex, but without any luck:
# assignment of a numeric value (everything is ok)
g<-set.vertex.attribute(g, 'checked', 2, 3)
V(g)$checked
.
# assignment of a vector (is not working)
g<-set.vertex.attribute(g, 'checked', 2, c(3, 1))
V(g)$checked
checking the manual, http://igraph.sourceforge.net/doc/R/attributes.html
it looks like this is not possible. Is there any workaround?
Up till now the only things I come up with are:
store this
information in another structure
convert vector to a string with delimiters and store as a string
This works fine:
## replace c(3,1) by list(c(3,1))
g <- set.vertex.attribute(g, 'checked', 2, list(c(3, 1)))
V(g)[2]$checked
[1] 3 1
EDIT Why this works?
When you use :
g<-set.vertex.attribute(g, 'checked', 2, c(3, 1))
You get this warning :
number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length
Indeed you try to put c(3,1) which has a length =2 in a variable with length =1. SO the idea is to replace c(3,1) with something similar but with length =1. For example:
length(list(c(3,1)))
[1] 1
> length(data.frame(c(3,1)))
[1] 1
I have a data frame named "mydata" that looks like this this:
A B C D
1. 5 4 4 4
2. 5 4 4 4
3. 5 4 4 4
4. 5 4 4 4
5. 5 4 4 4
6. 5 4 4 4
7. 5 4 4 4
I'd like to delete row 2,4,6. For example, like this:
A B C D
1. 5 4 4 4
3. 5 4 4 4
5. 5 4 4 4
7. 5 4 4 4
The key idea is you form a set of the rows you want to remove, and keep the complement of that set.
In R, the complement of a set is given by the '-' operator.
So, assuming the data.frame is called myData:
myData[-c(2, 4, 6), ] # notice the -
Of course, don't forget to "reassign" myData if you wanted to drop those rows entirely---otherwise, R just prints the results.
myData <- myData[-c(2, 4, 6), ]
You can also work with a so called boolean vector, aka logical:
row_to_keep = c(TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE)
myData = myData[row_to_keep,]
Note that the ! operator acts as a NOT, i.e. !TRUE == FALSE:
myData = myData[!row_to_keep,]
This seems a bit cumbersome in comparison to #mrwab's answer (+1 btw :)), but a logical vector can be generated on the fly, e.g. where a column value exceeds a certain value:
myData = myData[myData$A > 4,]
myData = myData[!myData$A > 4,] # equal to myData[myData$A <= 4,]
You can transform a boolean vector to a vector of indices:
row_to_keep = which(myData$A > 4)
Finally, a very neat trick is that you can use this kind of subsetting not only for extraction, but also for assignment:
myData$A[myData$A > 4,] <- NA
where column A is assigned NA (not a number) where A exceeds 4.
Problems with deleting by row number
For quick and dirty analyses, you can delete rows of a data.frame by number as per the top answer. I.e.,
newdata <- myData[-c(2, 4, 6), ]
However, if you are trying to write a robust data analysis script, you should generally avoid deleting rows by numeric position. This is because the order of the rows in your data may change in the future. A general principle of a data.frame or database tables is that the order of the rows should not matter. If the order does matter, this should be encoded in an actual variable in the data.frame.
For example, imagine you imported a dataset and deleted rows by numeric position after inspecting the data and identifying the row numbers of the rows that you wanted to delete. However, at some later point, you go into the raw data and have a look around and reorder the data. Your row deletion code will now delete the wrong rows, and worse, you are unlikely to get any errors warning you that this has occurred.
Better strategy
A better strategy is to delete rows based on substantive and stable properties of the row. For example, if you had an id column variable that uniquely identifies each case, you could use that.
newdata <- myData[ !(myData$id %in% c(2,4,6)), ]
Other times, you will have a formal exclusion criteria that could be specified, and you could use one of the many subsetting tools in R to exclude cases based on that rule.
Create id column in your data frame or use any column name to identify the row. Using index is not fair to delete.
Use subset function to create new frame.
updated_myData <- subset(myData, id!= 6)
print (updated_myData)
updated_myData <- subset(myData, id %in% c(1, 3, 5, 7))
print (updated_myData)
By simplified sequence :
mydata[-(1:3 * 2), ]
By sequence :
mydata[seq(1, nrow(mydata), by = 2) , ]
By negative sequence :
mydata[-seq(2, nrow(mydata), by = 2) , ]
Or if you want to subset by selecting odd numbers:
mydata[which(1:nrow(mydata) %% 2 == 1) , ]
Or if you want to subset by selecting odd numbers, version 2:
mydata[which(1:nrow(mydata) %% 2 != 0) , ]
Or if you want to subset by filtering even numbers out:
mydata[!which(1:nrow(mydata) %% 2 == 0) , ]
Or if you want to subset by filtering even numbers out, version 2:
mydata[!which(1:nrow(mydata) %% 2 != 1) , ]
For completeness, I'll add that this can be done with dplyr as well using slice. The advantage of using this is that it can be part of a piped workflow.
df <- df %>%
.
.
slice(-c(2, 4, 6)) %>%
.
.
Of course, you can also use it without pipes.
df <- slice(df, -c(2, 4, 6))
The "not vector" format, -c(2, 4, 6) means to get everything that is not at rows 2, 4 and 6. For an example using a range, let's say you wanted to remove the first 5 rows, you could do slice(df, 6:n()). For more examples, see the docs.
Delete Dan from employee.data - No need to manage a new data.frame.
employee.data <- subset(employee.data, name!="Dan")
Here's a quick and dirty function to remove a row by index.
removeRowByIndex <- function(x, row_index) {
nr <- nrow(x)
if (nr < row_index) {
print('row_index exceeds number of rows')
} else if (row_index == 1)
{
return(x[2:nr, ])
} else if (row_index == nr) {
return(x[1:(nr - 1), ])
} else {
return (x[c(1:(row_index - 1), (row_index + 1):nr), ])
}
}
It's main flaw is it the row_index argument doesn't follow the R pattern of being a vector of values. There may be other problems as I only spent a couple of minutes writing and testing it, and have only started using R in the last few weeks. Any comments and improvements on this would be very welcome!
To identify by a name:
Call out the unique ID and identify the location in your data frame (DF).
Mark to delete. If the unique ID applies to multiple rows, all these rows will be removed.
Code:
Rows<-which(grepl("unique ID", DF$Column))
DF2<-DF[-c(Rows),]
DF2
Another approach when working with Unique IDs is to subset data:
*This came from an actual report where I wanted to remove the chemical standard
Chem.Report<-subset(Chem.Report, Chem_ID!="Standard")
Chem_ID is the column name.
The ! is important for excluding