Summarized huge data, How to handle it with R? - r

I am working on EBS, Forex market Limit Order Book(LOB): here is an example of LOB in a 100 millisecond time slice:
datetime|side(0=Bid,1=Ask)| distance(1:best price, 2: 2nd best, etc.)| price
2008/01/28,09:11:28.000,0,1,1.6066
2008/01/28,09:11:28.000,0,2,1.6065
2008/01/28,09:11:28.000,0,3,1.6064
2008/01/28,09:11:28.000,0,4,1.6063
2008/01/28,09:11:28.000,0,5,1.6062
2008/01/28,09:11:28.000,1,1,1.6067
2008/01/28,09:11:28.000,1,2,1.6068
2008/01/28,09:11:28.000,1,3,1.6069
2008/01/28,09:11:28.000,1,4,1.6070
2008/01/28,09:11:28.000,1,5,1.6071
2008/01/28,09:11:28.500,0,1,1.6065 (I skip the rest)
To summarize the data, They have two rules(I have changed it a bit for simplicity):
If there is no change in LOB in Bid or Ask side, they will not record that side. Look at the last line of the data, millisecond was 000 and now is 500 which means there was no change at LOB in either side for 100, 200, 300 and 400 milliseconds(but those information are important for any calculation).
The last price (only the last) is removed from a given side of the order book. In this case, a single record with nothing in the price field. Again there will be no record for whole LOB at that time.
Example:2008/01/28,09:11:28.800,0,1,
I want to calculate minAsk-maxBid(1.6067-1.6066) or weighted average price (using sizes of all distances as weights, there is size column in my real data). I want to do for my whole data. But as you see the data has been summarized and this is not routine. I have written a code to produce the whole data (not just summary). This is fine for small data set but for a large one I am creating a huge file. I was wondering if you have any tips how to handle the data? How to fill the gaps while it is efficient.

You did not give a great reproducible example so this will be pseudo/untested code. Read the docs carefully and make adjustments as needed.
I'd suggest you first filter and split your data into two data.frames:
best.bid <- subset(data, side == 0 & distance == 1)
best.ask <- subset(data, side == 1 & distance == 1)
Then, for each of these two data.frames, use findInterval to compute the corresponding best ask or best bid:
best.bid$ask <- best.ask$price[findInterval(best.bid$time, best.ask$time)]
best.ask$bid <- best.bid$price[findInterval(best.ask$time, best.bid$time)]
(for this to work you might have to transform date/time into a linear measure, e.g. time in seconds since market opening.)
Then it should be easy:
min.spread <- min(c(best.bid$ask - best.bid$price,
best.ask$bid - best.ask$price))
I'm not sure I understand the end of day particularity but I bet you could just compute the spread at market close and add it to the final min call.
For the weighted average prices, use the same idea but instead of the two best.bid and best.ask data.frames, you should start with two weighted.avg.bid and weighted.avg.ask data.frames.

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Is there some way to detect 'wrong' measures in a dataframe?

I'm struggling on how can I remove 'wrong' measures from my dataset. I'm dealing with kind a huge table, where I have a date and the size of an equipment. It can't get bigger with use, at most it can stay the same size, so of course this problem is a measurement error.
My database is extensive and with several particular cases, which makes it impossible for me to place it here, among other business reasons... Therefore, I use an image and a part of the data as an example, but the problem is what I described above...
simplest_example = test = data.frame(data1 = c("20-09-2020", "15-10-2020", "13-05-2021", "20-10-2021","20-11-2021"), measure = c(5,4,3,5,2))
#as result:
# data1 measure
#1 20-09-2020 5
#2 15-10-2020 4
#3 13-05-2021 3
#4 20-11-2021 2
The point is: Select the largest non-ascending sequence possible, and exclude some values that inhibit this from happening.
So I would like to ask for a suggestion, if anyone here has come across something similar, and let me know how to recommend something.
If I understand, you want to detect any time the variable measure is greater than the value at the previous time point? I'd create a lag column, which is just the measure column lagged by one time. Then identify when a previous measure is greater than the current measure
library(dplyr)
simplest_example %>%
mutate(previous_measure = lag(measure)) %>%
filter(previous_measure < measure)

Vectorizing R custom calculation with dynamic day range

I have a big dataset (around 100k rows) with 2 columns referencing a device_id and a date and the rest of the columns being attributes (e.g. device_repaired, device_replaced).
I'm building a ML algorithm to predict when a device will have to be maintained. To do so, I want to calculate certain features (e.g. device_reparations_on_last_3days, device_replacements_on_last_5days).
I have a function that subsets my dataset and returns a calculation:
For the specified device,
That happened before the day in question,
As long as there's enough data (e.g. if I want last 3 days, but only 2 records exist this returns NA).
Here's a sample of the data and the function outlined above:
data = data.frame(device_id=c(rep(1,5),rep(2,10))
,day=c(1:5,1:10)
,device_repaired=sample(0:1,15,replace=TRUE)
,device_replaced=sample(0:1,15,replace=TRUE))
# Exaxmple: How many times the device 1 was repaired over the last 2 days before day 3
# => getCalculation(3,1,data,"device_repaired",2)
getCalculation <- function(fday,fdeviceid,fdata,fattribute,fpreviousdays){
# Subset dataset
df = subset(fdata,day<fday & day>(fday-fpreviousdays-1) & device_id==fdeviceid)
# Make sure there's enough data; if so, make calculation
if(nrow(df)<fpreviousdays){
calculation = NA
} else {
calculation = sum(df[,fattribute])
}
return(calculation)
}
My problem is that the amount of attributes available (e.g. device_repaired) and the features to calculate (e.g. device_reparations_on_last_3days) has grown exponentially and my script takes around 4 hours to execute, since I need to loop over each row and calculate all these features.
I'd like to vectorize this logic using some apply approach which would also allow me to parallelize its execution, but I don't know if/how it's possible to add these arguments to a lapply function.

How can I compute data rates in R with millisecond precision data?

I'm trying to take data from a CSV file that looks like this:
datetime,bytes
2014-10-24T10:38:49.453565,52594
2014-10-24T10:38:49.554342,86594
2014-10-24T10:38:49.655055,196754
2014-10-24T10:38:49.755772,272914
2014-10-24T10:38:49.856477,373554
2014-10-24T10:38:49.957182,544914
2014-10-24T10:38:50.057873,952914
2014-10-24T10:38:50.158559,1245314
2014-10-24T10:38:50.259264,1743074
and compute rates of change of the bytes value (which represents the number of bytes downloaded so far into a file), in a way that accurately reflects my detailed time data for when I took the sample (which should approximately be every 1/10 of a second, though for various reasons, I expect that to be imperfect).
For example, in the above sampling, the second row got (86594-52594=)34000 additional bytes over the first, in (.554342-.453565=).100777 seconds, thus yielding (34000/0.100777=)337,378 bytes/second.
A second example is that the last row compared to its predecessor got (1743074-1245314=)497760 bytes in (.259264-.158559=).100705 seconds, thus yielding (497760/.100705=)4,942,753 bytes/sec.
I'd like to get a graph of these rates over time, and I'm fairly new to R, and not quite figuring out how to get what I want.
I found some related questions that seem like they might get me close:
How to parse milliseconds in R?
Need to calculate Rate of Change of two data sets over time individually and Net rate of Change
Apply a function to a specified range; Rate of Change
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But none of them seem to quite get me there... When I try using strptime, I seem to lose the precision (even using %OS); plus, I'm just not sure how to plot this as a series of deltas with timestamps associated with them... And the stuff in that one answer (second link, the answer with the AAPL stock delta graph) about diff(...) and -nrow(...) makes sense to me at a conceptual level, but not deeply enough that I understand how to apply it in this case.
I think I may have gotten close, but would love to see what others come up with. What options do I have for this? Anything that could show a rolling average (over, say, a second or 5 seconds), and/or using nice SI units (KB/s, MB/s, etc.)?
Edit:
I think I may be pretty close (or even getting the basic question answered) with:
my_data <- read.csv("my_data.csv")
my_deltas <- diff(my_data$bytes)
my_times <- strptime(my_data$datetime, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%OS")
my_times <- my_times[2:nrow(my_data)]
df <- data.frame(my_times,my_deltas)
plot(df, type='l', xlab="When", ylab="bytes/s")
It's not terribly pretty (especially the y axis labels, and the fact that, with a longer data file, it's all pretty crammed with spikes), though, and it's not getting the sub-second precision, which might actually be OK for the larger problem (in the bigger graph, you can't tell, whereas with the sample data above, you really can), but still is not quite what I was hoping for... so, input still welcomed.
A possible solution:
# reading the data
df <- read.table(text="datetime,bytes
2014-10-24T10:38:49.453565,52594
2014-10-24T10:38:49.554342,86594
2014-10-24T10:38:49.655055,196754
2014-10-24T10:38:49.755772,272914
2014-10-24T10:38:49.856477,373554
2014-10-24T10:38:49.957182,544914
2014-10-24T10:38:50.057873,952914
2014-10-24T10:38:50.158559,1245314
2014-10-24T10:38:50.259264,1743074", header=TRUE, sep=",")
# formatting & preparing the data
df$bytes <- as.numeric(df$bytes)
df$datetime <- gsub("T"," ",df$datetime)
df$datetime <- strptime(df$datetime, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%OS")
df$sec <- as.numeric(format(df$datetime, "%OS6"))
# calculating the change in bytes per second
df$difftime <- c(NA,diff(df$sec))
df$diffbytes <- c(NA,diff(df$bytes))
df$bytespersec <- df$diffbytes / df$difftime
# creating the plot
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(df, aes(x=sec,y=bytespersec/1000000)) +
geom_line() +
geom_point() +
labs(title="Change in bytes\n", x="\nWhen", y="MB/s\n") +
theme_bw()
which gives:

Calculate percentage over time on very large data frames

I'm new to R and my problem is I know what I need to do, just not how to do it in R. I have an very large data frame from a web services load test, ~20M observations. I has the following variables:
epochtime, uri, cache (hit or miss)
I'm thinking I need to do a coule of things. I need to subset my data frame for the top 50 distinct URIs then for each observation in each subset calculate the % cache hit at that point in time. The end goal is a plot of cache hit/miss % over time by URI
I have read, and am still reading various posts here on this topic but R is pretty new and I have a deadline. I'd appreciate any help I can get
EDIT:
I can't provide exact data but it looks like this, its at least 20M observations I'm retrieving from a Mongo database. Time is epoch and we're recording many thousands per second so time has a lot of dupes, thats expected. There could be more than 50 uri, I only care about the top 50. The end result would be a line plot over time of % TCP_HIT to the total occurrences by URI. Hope thats clearer
time uri action
1355683900 /some/uri TCP_HIT
1355683900 /some/other/uri TCP_HIT
1355683905 /some/other/uri TCP_MISS
1355683906 /some/uri TCP_MISS
You are looking for the aggregate function.
Call your data frame u:
> u
time uri action
1 1355683900 /some/uri TCP_HIT
2 1355683900 /some/other/uri TCP_HIT
3 1355683905 /some/other/uri TCP_MISS
4 1355683906 /some/uri TCP_MISS
Here is the ratio of hits for a subset (using the order of factor levels, TCP_HIT=1, TCP_MISS=2 as alphabetical order is used by default), with ten-second intervals:
ratio <- function(u) aggregate(u$action ~ u$time %/% 10,
FUN=function(x) sum((2-as.numeric(x))/length(x)))
Now use lapply to get the final result:
lapply(seq_along(levels(u$uri)),
function(l) list(uri=levels(u$uri)[l],
hits=ratio(u[as.numeric(u$uri) == l,])))
[[1]]
[[1]]$uri
[1] "/some/other/uri"
[[1]]$hits
u$time%/%10 u$action
1 135568390 0.5
[[2]]
[[2]]$uri
[1] "/some/uri"
[[2]]$hits
u$time%/%10 u$action
1 135568390 0.5
Or otherwise filter the data frame by URI before computing the ratio.
#MatthewLundberg's code is the right idea. Specifically, you want something that utilizes the split-apply-combine strategy.
Given the size of your data, though, I'd take a look at the data.table package.
You can see why visually here--data.table is just faster.
Thought it would be useful to share my solution to the plotting part of them problem.
My R "noobness" my shine here but this is what I came up with. It makes a basic line plot. Its plotting the actual value, I haven't done any conversions.
for ( i in 1:length(h)) {
name <- unlist(h[[i]][1])
dftemp <- as.data.frame(do.call(rbind,h[[i]][2]))
names(dftemp) <- c("time", "cache")
plot(dftemp$time,dftemp$cache, type="o")
title(main=name)
}

R Accumulate equity data - add time and price

I have some data formatted as below. I have done some analysis on this and would like to be able to plot the price development in the same graph as the analyzed data.
This requires me to have the same x-axes for the data.
So I would like to aggregate the "shares" column in say 150 increments, and add the "finalprice" and "time" to this.
The aggregation should include the latest time and price, so if the aggregation needs to occur over two or more rows of data then the last row should provide the price and time data.
My question is how to create a new vector with 150 shares per row.
The length of the vector will equal sum(shares)/150.
Is there an easy way to do this? Thanks in advance.
Edit:
I thought about expanding the observations using rep(finalprice, shares) and then getting each 150th value of the expanded vector.
Data sample:
"date","ord","shares","finalprice","time","stock"
20120702,E,2000,99.35,540.84753333,500
20120702,E,28000,99.35,540.84753333,500
20120702,E,50,99.5,542.03073333,500
20120702,E,13874,99.5,542.29411667,500
20120702,E,292,99.5,542.30191667,500
20120702,E,784,99.5,542.30193333,500
20120702,E,13300,99.35,543.04805,500
20120702,E,16658,99.35,543.04805,500
20120702,E,42,99.5,543.04805,500
20120702,E,400,99.4,546.17173333,500
20120702,E,100,99.4,547.07,500
20120702,E,2219,99.3,549.47988333,500
20120702,E,781,99.3,549.5238,500
20120702,E,50,99.3,553.4052,500
20120702,E,1500,99.35,559.86275,500
20120702,E,103,99.5,567.56726667,500
20120702,E,1105,99.7,573.93326667,500
20120702,E,4100,99.5,582.2657,500
20120702,E,900,99.5,582.2657,500
20120702,E,1024,99.45,582.43891667,500
20120702,E,8214,99.45,582.43891667,500
20120702,E,10762,99.45,582.43895,500
20120702,E,1250,99.6,586.86446667,500
20120702,E,5000,99.45,594.39061667,500
20120702,E,20000,99.45,594.39061667,500
20120702,E,15000,99.45,594.39061667,500
20120702,E,4000,99.45,601.34491667,500
20120702,E,8700,99.45,603.53608333,500
20120702,E,3290,99.6,609.23213333,500
I think I got it solved.
expand <- rep(finalprice, shares)
Increment <- expand[seq(from = 1, to = length(expand), by = 150)]

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