我有一个大的数据集,其中包含由“开始”和“结束”列定义的时间段。一些时期重叠。
我想将所有重叠的时间段组合(压平/合并/折叠)为一个“开始”值和一个“结束”值。
以下是一些示例数据:
ID start end
1 A 2013-01-01 2013-01-05
2 A 2013-01-01 2013-01-05
3 A 2013-01-02 2013-01-03
4 A 2013-01-04 2013-01-06
5 A 2013-01-07 2013-01-09
6 A 2013-01-08 2013-01-11
7 A 2013-01-12 2013-01-15
期望结果:
ID start end
1 A 2013-01-01 2013-01-06
2 A 2013-01-07 2013-01-11
3 A 2013-01-12 2013-01-15
我尝试过的方法:
require(dplyr)
data <- structure(list(ID = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L), class = "factor", .Label = "A"),
start = structure(c(1356998400, 1356998400, 1357084800, 1357257600,
1357516800, 1357603200, 1357948800), tzone = "UTC", class = c("POSIXct",
"POSIXt")), end = structure(c(1357344000, 1357344000, 1357171200,
1357430400, 1357689600, 1357862400, 1358208000), tzone = "UTC", class = c("POSIXct",
"POSIXt"))), .Names = c("ID", "start", "end"), row.names = c(NA,
-7L), class = "data.frame")
remove.overlaps <- function(data){
data2 <- data
for ( i in 1:length(unique(data$start))) {
x3 <- filter(data2, start>=data$start[i] & start<=data$end[i])
x4 <- x3[1,]
x4$end <- max(x3$end)
data2 <- filter(data2, start<data$start[i] | start>data$end[i])
data2 <- rbind(data2,x4)
}
data2 <- na.omit(data2)}
data <- remove.overlaps(data)
[-n()]
是什么意思?我能够根据自己的需求进行调整(类似的情况,但在日期之间允许90天仍被视为“重叠”),但我不得不逐字复制[-n()]
而不真正理解它的作用。 - Dannidcumsum
中的最后一项以适应向量开头添加的0
。) - Dannid