Counting dates that don't exist - r

I am working on a data frame that contains 2 columns as follows:
time frequency
2014-01-06 13
2014-01-07 30
2014-01-09 56
My issue is that I am interested in counting the days of which frequency is 0. The data is pulled using RPostgreSQL/RSQLite so there is no datetime given unless there is a value (i.e. unless frequency is at least 1). If I was interested in counting these dates that don't actually exist in the data frame, is there an easy way to go about doing it? I.E. If we consider the date range 2014-01-01 to 20-14-01-10, I would want it to count 7
My only thought was to brute force create a separate dataframe with every date (note that this is 4+ years of dates which would be an immense undertaking) and then merging the two dataframes and counting the number of NA values. I'm sure there is a more elegant solution than what I've thought of.
Thanks!

Sort by date and then look for gaps.
start <- as.Date("2014-01-01")
time <- as.Date(c("2014-01-06", "2014-01-07","2014-01-09"))
end <- as.Date("2014-01-10")
time <- sort(unique(time))
# Include start and end dates, so the missing dates are 1/1-1/5, 1/8, 1/10
d <- c(time[1]- start,
diff(time) - 1,
end - time[length(time)] )
d # [1] 5 0 1 1
sum(d) # 7 missing days
And now for which days are missing...
(gaps <- data.frame(gap_starts = c(start,time+1)[d>0],
gap_length = d[d>0]))
# gap_starts gap_length
# 1 2014-01-01 5
# 2 2014-01-08 1
# 3 2014-01-10 1
for (g in 1:nrow(gaps)){
start=gaps$gap_starts[g]
length=gaps$gap_length[g]
for(i in start:(start+length-1)){
print(as.Date(i, origin="1970-01-01"))
}
}
# [1] "2014-01-01"
# [1] "2014-01-02"
# [1] "2014-01-03"
# [1] "2014-01-04"
# [1] "2014-01-05"
# [1] "2014-01-08"
# [1] "2014-01-10"

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A for and while loop for creating a dynamic number of columns based on conditions

Okay, I have a pretty heavy lifting problem for a loop in R that is taxing my knowledge. Any advice or direction is appreciated.
I have a list of dates and phone numbers. The phone number is being used as the index and can appear for multiple dates.
library(dplyr)
Date = as.Date(c("2019-03-01", "2019-03-15","2019-03-29", "2019-04-10","2019-03-05","2019-03-20"))
Phone = c("070000001","070000001","070000001","070000001","070000002","070000002")
df<-data.frame(Date,Phone)
df
## Date Phone
## 1 2019-03-01 070000001
## 2 2019-03-15 070000001
## 3 2019-03-29 070000001
## 4 2019-04-10 070000001
## 5 2019-03-05 070000002
## 6 2019-03-20 070000002
I then computed the difference between dates for each interaction
df<-df %>%
arrange(Phone,Date) %>%
group_by(Phone) %>%
mutate(Diff = Date - lag(Date))
df
## Date Phone Diff
## <date> <fct> <drtn>
## 1 2019-03-01 070000001 NA days
## 2 2019-03-15 070000001 14 days
## 3 2019-03-29 070000001 14 days
## 4 2019-04-10 070000001 12 days
## 5 2019-03-05 070000002 NA days
## 6 2019-03-20 070000002 15 days
Now comes the hard part. I am trying to create a dynamic column range that counts the number of rows from the earliest date/phone pair until the sum of the data difference is =< 30. Then a subsequent column is created for the next incident. Once a new number begins the columns start back at 1. So it becomes an record on incidents in which multiple rows may have membership in each instance.
I have tried several iterations of for and while loop combinations but they were so terrible that I just deleted them. I also tried this as a matrix function but the logic was far to complicated for the query and even when going over a small sample set my computer wouldn't like it.
This is as far as I got.
current.sum <- 0
for (c in 1:nrow(df)) {
current.sum <- current.sum + df[c, "Diff"]
df[c, "Diff"] <- current.sum
if (current.sum <= 30) {
df[c, "Int"] <- nrow(current.sum)
current.sum <- NA()
}
}
The desired dataset would look like this.There are essentially five steps:
For each phone number
Sum Diff until it reaches 30
Count the number of rows
Create a column and place the row count next to the included rows
Restart (either for the next phone number or for a subsequent sum up to 30)
## Date Phone Diff Int_1 Int_2
## 1 2019-03-01 070000001 NA 3 NA
## 2 2019-03-15 070000001 14 3 NA
## 3 2019-03-29 070000001 14 3 2
## 4 2019-04-10 070000001 12 NA 2
## 5 2019-03-05 070000002 NA 1 NA
## 6 2019-03-20 070000002 15 1 NA
Update 18/07/2019
I have been able to get 70% of the way, but am still missing the transposed columns and dual membership of date/phone combinations. I might be able to do with the transpose I can add this the solution below a way to evaluate the last group date to see if it should be included in membership rather than being exclusive to the 30 days threshold.
cumsum_group <- function(x, threshold) {
cumsum <- 0
group <- 1
result <- numeric()
for (i in 1:length(x)) {
cumsum <- cumsum + x[i]
if (cumsum > threshold) {
group <- group + 1
cumsum <- x[i]
}
result = c(result, group)
}
return (result)
}
df<-df %>% group_by(binning=cumsum_group(Diff, 30))
The issue is that line 3 and 4 both belong to instance 2 of 070000001 the previous entry when added together equals 26. So the function needs to both lag to the previous value once the threshold is reached AND have a new column that allows that to be flagged.

convert date to numeric and back to date

I have some date that I am trying to convert them to numbers and then back to original date.
Date
1990-12-31
1991-12-31
1992-12-31
1993-12-31
1994-06-30
1994-12-31
I tried,
as.numeric(DF[1:6])
[1] 1 2 3 5 7
as.Date(as.numeric(DF[1:6]), "1990-12-31")
[1] "1991-01-01" "1991-01-02" "1991-01-03" "1991-01-05" "1991-01-07" "1991-01-08"
I notice the problem of time interval. What should I do to get original dates?
If what you have is a data frame with a column of class factor as shown reproducibly in the Note at the end then we do not want to apply as.numeric to that since that will just give the underlying codes for the factor levels which are not meaningful. Rather, this gives Date class:
d <- as.Date(DF$Date)
d
## [1] "1990-12-31" "1991-12-31" "1992-12-31" "1993-12-31" "1994-06-30"
## [6] "1994-12-31"
and this gives the number of days since the UNIX Epoch:
no <- as.numeric(d)
no
## [1] 7669 8034 8400 8765 8946 9130
and this turns that back to Date class:
as.Date(no, "1970-01-01")
## [1] "1990-12-31" "1991-12-31" "1992-12-31" "1993-12-31" "1994-06-30"
## [6] "1994-12-31"
Note
Lines <- "
Date
1990-12-31
1991-12-31
1992-12-31
1993-12-31
1994-06-30
1994-12-31 "
DF <- read.table(text = Lines, header = TRUE)

Convert YYYYMMDD to mm/dd/yyyy format in R

I have a dataframe in R, which has two variables that are dates and I need to calculate the difference in days between them. However, they are formatted as YYYYMMDD. How do I change it to a date format readable in R?
This should work
lubridate::ymd(given_date_format)
I like anydate() from the anytime package. Quick demo, with actual data:
R> set.seed(123) # be reproducible
R> data <- data.frame(inp=Sys.Date() + cumsum(runif(10)*10))
R> data$ymd <- format(data$inp, "%Y%m%d") ## as yyyymmdd
R> data$int <- as.integer(data$ymd) ## same as integer
R> library(anytime)
R> data$diff1 <- c(NA, diff(anydate(data$ymd))) # reads YMD
R> data$diff2 <- c(NA, diff(anydate(data$int))) # also reads int
R> data
inp ymd int diff1 diff2
1 2017-06-23 20170623 20170623 NA NA
2 2017-07-01 20170701 20170701 8 8
3 2017-07-05 20170705 20170705 4 4
4 2017-07-14 20170714 20170714 9 9
5 2017-07-24 20170724 20170724 10 10
6 2017-07-24 20170724 20170724 0 0
7 2017-07-29 20170729 20170729 5 5
8 2017-08-07 20170807 20170807 9 9
9 2017-08-13 20170813 20170813 6 6
10 2017-08-17 20170817 20170817 4 4
R>
Here the first column is actual dates we work from. Columns two and three are then generates to match OP's requirement: YMD, either in character or integer.
We then compute differences on them, account for the first 'lost' data point differences when we have no predecessor and show that either date format works.

Filter a data frame by two time series

Hi I am new to R and would like to know if there is a simple way to filter data over multiple dates.
I have a data which has dates from 07.03.2003 to 31.12.2016.
I need to split/ filter the data by multiple time series, as per below.
Dates require in new data frame:
07.03.2003 to 06/03/2005
and
01/01/2013 to 31/12/2016
i.e the new data frame should not include dates from 07/03/2005 to 31/12/2012
Let's take the following data.frame with dates:
df <- data.frame( date = c(ymd("2017-02-02"),ymd("2016-02-02"),ymd("2014-02-01"),ymd("2012-01-01")))
date
1 2017-02-02
2 2016-02-02
3 2014-02-01
4 2012-01-01
I can filter this for a range of dates using lubridate::ymd and dplyr::between and dplyr::between:
df1 <- filter(df, between(date, ymd("2017-01-01"), ymd("2017-03-01")))
date
1 2017-02-02
Or:
df2 <- filter(df, between(date, ymd("2013-01-01"), ymd("2014-04-01")))
date
1 2014-02-01
I would go with lubridate. In particular
library(data.table)
library(lubridate)
set.seed(555)#in order to be reproducible
N <- 1000#number of pseudonumbers to be generated
date1<-dmy("07-03-2003")
date2<-dmy("06-03-2005")
date3<-dmy("01-01-2013")
date4<-dmy("31-12-2016")
Creating data table with two columns (dates and numbers):
my_dt<-data.table(date_sample=c(sample(seq(date1, date4, by="day"), N),numeric_sample=sample(N,replace = F)))
> head(my_dt)
date_sample numeric_sample
1: 2007-04-11 2
2: 2006-04-20 71
3: 2007-12-20 46
4: 2016-05-23 78
5: 2011-10-07 5
6: 2003-09-10 47
Let's impose some cuts:
forbidden_dates<-interval(date2+1,date3-1)#create interval that dates should not fall in.
> forbidden_dates
[1] 2005-03-07 UTC--2012-12-31 UTC
test_date1<-dmy("08-03-2003")#should not fall in above range
test_date2<-dmy("08-03-2005")#should fall in above range
Therefore:
test_date1 %within% forbidden_dates
[1] FALSE
test_date2 %within% forbidden_dates
[1] TRUE
A good way of visualizing the cut:
before
>plot(my_dt)
my_dt<-my_dt[!(date_sample %within% forbidden_dates)]#applying the temporal cut
after
>plot(my_dt)

R: How to get the Week number of the month

I am new in R.
I want the week number of the month, which the date belongs to.
By using the following code:
>CurrentDate<-Sys.Date()
>Week Number <- format(CurrentDate, format="%U")
>Week Number
"31"
%U will return the Week number of the year .
But i want the week number of the month.
If the date is 2014-08-01 then i want to get 1.( The Date belongs to the 1st week of the month).
Eg:
2014-09-04 -> 1 (The Date belongs to the 1st week of the month).
2014-09-10 -> 2 (The Date belongs to the 2nd week of the month).
and so on...
How can i get this?
Reference:
http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/su07/R/html/base/html/strptime.html
By analogy of the weekdays function:
monthweeks <- function(x) {
UseMethod("monthweeks")
}
monthweeks.Date <- function(x) {
ceiling(as.numeric(format(x, "%d")) / 7)
}
monthweeks.POSIXlt <- function(x) {
ceiling(as.numeric(format(x, "%d")) / 7)
}
monthweeks.character <- function(x) {
ceiling(as.numeric(format(as.Date(x), "%d")) / 7)
}
dates <- sample(seq(as.Date("2000-01-01"), as.Date("2015-01-01"), "days"), 7)
dates
#> [1] "2004-09-24" "2002-11-21" "2011-08-13" "2008-09-23" "2000-08-10" "2007-09-10" "2013-04-16"
monthweeks(dates)
#> [1] 4 3 2 4 2 2 3
Another solution to use stri_datetime_fields() from the stringi package:
stringi::stri_datetime_fields(dates)$WeekOfMonth
#> [1] 4 4 2 4 2 3 3
You can use day from the lubridate package. I'm not sure if there's a week-of-month type function in the package, but we can do the math.
library(lubridate)
curr <- Sys.Date()
# [1] "2014-08-08"
day(curr) ## 8th day of the current month
# [1] 8
day(curr) / 7 ## Technically, it's the 1.14th week
# [1] 1.142857
ceiling(day(curr) / 7) ## but ceiling() will take it up to the 2nd week.
# [1] 2
Issue Overview
It was difficult to tell which answers worked, so I built my own function nth_week and tested it against the others.
The issue that's leading to most of the answers being incorrect is this:
The first week of a month is often a short-week
Same with the last week of the month
For example, October 1st 2019 is a Tuesday, so 6 days into October (which is a Sunday) is already the second week. Also, contiguous months often share the same week in their respective counts, meaning that the last week of the prior month is commonly also the first week of the current month. So, we should expect a week count higher than 52 per year and some months that contain a span of 6 weeks.
Results Comparison
Here's a table showing examples where some of the above suggested algorithms go awry:
DATE Tori user206 Scri Klev Stringi Grot Frei Vale epi iso coni
Fri-2016-01-01 1 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 1 1 1
Sat-2016-01-02 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Sun-2016-01-03 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 -50 1 2
Mon-2016-01-04 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 -50 -51 2
----
Sat-2018-12-29 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 5 5
Sun-2018-12-30 6 5 5 5 5 6 6 4 -46 5 6
Mon-2018-12-31 6 5 5 5 6 6 6 4 -46 -46 6
Tue-2019-01-01 1 1 1 1 6 1 1 1 1 1 1
You can see that only Grothendieck, conighion, Freitas, and Tori are correct due to their treatment of partial week periods. I compared all days from year 100 to year 3000; there are no differences among those 4. (Stringi is probably correct for noting weekends as separate, incremented periods, but I didn't check to be sure; epiweek() and isoweek(), because of their intended uses, show some odd behavior near year-ends when using them for week incrementation.)
Speed Comparison
Below are the tests for efficiency between the implementations of: Tori, Grothendieck, Conighion, and Freitas
# prep
library(lubridate)
library(tictoc)
kepler<- ymd(15711227) # Kepler's birthday since it's a nice day and gives a long vector of dates
some_dates<- seq(kepler, today(), by='day')
# test speed of Tori algorithm
tic(msg = 'Tori')
Tori<- (5 + day(some_dates) + wday(floor_date(some_dates, 'month'))) %/% 7
toc()
Tori: 0.19 sec elapsed
# test speed of Grothendieck algorithm
wk <- function(x) as.numeric(format(x, "%U"))
tic(msg = 'Grothendieck')
Grothendieck<- (wk(some_dates) - wk(as.Date(cut(some_dates, "month"))) + 1)
toc()
Grothendieck: 1.99 sec elapsed
# test speed of conighion algorithm
tic(msg = 'conighion')
weeknum <- as.integer( format(some_dates, format="%U") )
mindatemonth <- as.Date( paste0(format(some_dates, "%Y-%m"), "-01") )
weeknummin <- as.integer( format(mindatemonth, format="%U") ) # the number of the week of the first week within the month
conighion <- weeknum - (weeknummin - 1) # this is as an integer
toc()
conighion: 2.42 sec elapsed
# test speed of Freitas algorithm
first_day_of_month_wday <- function(dx) {
day(dx) <- 1
wday(dx)
}
tic(msg = 'Freitas')
Freitas<- ceiling((day(some_dates) + first_day_of_month_wday(some_dates) - 1) / 7)
toc()
Freitas: 0.97 sec elapsed
Fastest correct algorithm by about at least 5X
require(lubridate)
(5 + day(some_dates) + wday(floor_date(some_dates, 'month'))) %/% 7
# some_dates above is any vector of dates, like:
some_dates<- seq(ymd(20190101), today(), 'day')
Function Implementation
I also wrote a generalized function for it that performs either month or year week counts, begins on a day you choose (i.e. say you want to start your week on Monday), labels output for easy checking, and is still extremely fast thanks to lubridate.
nth_week<- function(dates = NULL,
count_weeks_in = c("month","year"),
begin_week_on = "Sunday"){
require(lubridate)
count_weeks_in<- tolower(count_weeks_in[1])
# day_names and day_index are for beginning the week on a day other than Sunday
# (this vector ordering matters, so careful about changing it)
day_names<- c("Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday","Sunday")
# index integer of first match
day_index<- pmatch(tolower(begin_week_on),
tolower(day_names))[1]
### Calculate week index of each day
if (!is.na(pmatch(count_weeks_in, "year"))) {
# For year:
# sum the day of year, index for day of week at start of year, and constant 5
# then integer divide quantity by 7
# (explicit on package so lubridate and data.table don't fight)
n_week<- (5 +
lubridate::yday(dates) +
lubridate::wday(floor_date(dates, 'year'),
week_start = day_index)
) %/% 7
} else {
# For month:
# same algorithm as above, but for month rather than year
n_week<- (5 +
lubridate::day(dates) +
lubridate::wday(floor_date(dates, 'month'),
week_start = day_index)
) %/% 7
}
# naming very helpful for review
names(n_week)<- paste0(lubridate::wday(dates,T), '-', dates)
n_week
}
Function Output
# Example raw vector output:
some_dates<- seq(ymd(20190930), today(), by='day')
nth_week(some_dates)
Mon-2019-09-30 Tue-2019-10-01 Wed-2019-10-02
5 1 1
Thu-2019-10-03 Fri-2019-10-04 Sat-2019-10-05
1 1 1
Sun-2019-10-06 Mon-2019-10-07 Tue-2019-10-08
2 2 2
Wed-2019-10-09 Thu-2019-10-10 Fri-2019-10-11
2 2 2
Sat-2019-10-12 Sun-2019-10-13
2 3
# Example tabled output:
library(tidyverse)
nth_week(some_dates) %>%
enframe('DATE','nth_week_default') %>%
cbind(some_year_day_options = as.vector(nth_week(some_dates, count_weeks_in = 'year', begin_week_on = 'Mon')))
DATE nth_week_default some_year_day_options
1 Mon-2019-09-30 5 40
2 Tue-2019-10-01 1 40
3 Wed-2019-10-02 1 40
4 Thu-2019-10-03 1 40
5 Fri-2019-10-04 1 40
6 Sat-2019-10-05 1 40
7 Sun-2019-10-06 2 40
8 Mon-2019-10-07 2 41
9 Tue-2019-10-08 2 41
10 Wed-2019-10-09 2 41
11 Thu-2019-10-10 2 41
12 Fri-2019-10-11 2 41
13 Sat-2019-10-12 2 41
14 Sun-2019-10-13 3 41
Hope this work saves people the time of having to weed through all the responses to figure out which are correct.
I don't know R but if you take the week of the first day in the month you could use it to get the week in the month
2014-09-18
First day of month = 2014-09-01
Week of first day on month = 36
Week of 2014-09-18 = 38
Week in the month = 1 + (38 - 36) = 3
Using lubridate you can do
ceiling((day(date) + first_day_of_month_wday(date) - 1) / 7)
Where the function first_day_of_month_wday returns the weekday of the first day of month.
first_day_of_month_wday <- function(dx) {
day(dx) <- 1
wday(dx)
}
This adjustment must be done in order to get the correct week number otherwise if you have the 7th day of month on a Monday you will get 1 instead of 2, for example.
This is only a shift in the day of month.
The minus 1 is necessary because when the first day of month is sunday the adjustment is not needed, and the others weekdays follow this rule.
I came across the same issue and I solved it with mday from data.table package. Also, I realized that when using the ceiling() function, one also needs to account for the '5th week' situation. For example ceiling of the 30th day of a month ceiling(30/7) will give 5 ! Therefore, the ifelse statement below.
# Create a sample data table with days from year 0 until present
DT <- data.table(days = seq(as.Date("0-01-01"), Sys.Date(), "days"))
# compute the week of the month and account for the '5th week' case
DT[, week := ifelse( ceiling(mday(days)/7)==5, 4, ceiling(mday(days)/7) )]
> DT
days week
1: 0000-01-01 1
2: 0000-01-02 1
3: 0000-01-03 1
4: 0000-01-04 1
5: 0000-01-05 1
---
736617: 2016-10-14 2
736618: 2016-10-15 3
736619: 2016-10-16 3
736620: 2016-10-17 3
736621: 2016-10-18 3
To have an idea about the speed, then run:
system.time( DT[, week := ifelse( ceiling(mday(days)/7)==5, 4, ceiling(mday(days)/7) )] )
# user system elapsed
# 3.23 0.05 3.27
It took approx. 3 seconds to compute the weeks for more than 700 000 days.
However, the ceiling way above will always create the last week longer than all the other weeks (the four weeks have 7,7,7, and 9 or 10 days). Another way would be to use something like
ceiling(1:31/31*4)
[1] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
where you get 7, 8 , 8 and 8 days per respective week in a 31 days month.
DT[, week2 := ceiling(mday(days)/31*4)]
There is a simple way to do it with lubridate package:
isoweek() returns the week as it would appear in the ISO 8601 system, which uses a reoccurring leap week.
epiweek() is the US CDC version of epidemiological week. It follows same rules as
isoweek() but starts on Sunday. In other parts of the world the convention is to start epidemiological weeks on Monday, which is the same as isoweek().
Reference here
I am late to the party and maybe noone is gonna read this answer...
Anyway, why not stay simple and do it like this:
library(lubridate)
x <- ymd(20200311, 20200308)
week(x) - week(floor_date(x, unit = "months")) + 1
[1] 3 2
I don't know any build in functions but a work around would be
CurrentDate <- Sys.Date()
# The number of the week relative to the year
weeknum <- as.integer( format(CurrentDate, format="%U") )
# Find the minimum week of the month relative to the year
mindatemonth <- as.Date( paste0(format(CurrentDate, "%Y-%m"), "-01") )
weeknummin <- as.integer( format(mindatemonth, format="%U") ) # the number of the week of the first week within the month
# Calculate the number of the week relative to the month
weeknum <- weeknum - (weeknummin - 1) # this is as an integer
# With the following you can convert the integer to the same format of
# format(CurrentDate, format="%U")
formatC(weeknum, width = 2, flag = "0")
Simply do this:
library(lubridate)
ds1$Week <- week(ds1$Sale_Date)
This is high performance! It instantly works on my 12 milion rows dataset.
On example above, ds1 is the dataset, Sale_Date is a date column (like "2015-11-23")
The other approach, using "as.integer( format..." might work on small datasets, but on 12 million rows it would keep running forever...

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