[R] how to manupute data frame with conditions fill cell with previous value if next cell is zero

Bill.Venables at csiro.au Bill.Venables at csiro.au
Mon Apr 7 01:30:49 CEST 2008


There may well be neater ways to do this, but if you have only a 
limited number of zeros in any run, this is probably as quick as 
any.  Suppose your data frame is 'dat':

> fixCol <- function(x) {
    y <- x
    n <- length(x)
    while(any(zx <- x == 0)) {  
    		y <- c(NA, y[-n])
    		x[zx] <- y[zx]
    }
    x
  }
> dat <- transform(dat, x = fixCol(x), 
		y = fixCol(y), z = fixCol(z))

If you have a great number of columns to fix up like this, a more 
succinct way would be something like

> dat[, 3:5] <- lapply(dat[, 3:5], fixCol) 



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-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of saikat sarkar
Sent: Sunday, 6 April 2008 11:05 PM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] how to manupute data frame with conditions fill cell with
previous value if next cell is zero


Dear R Experts, 
 
This is the 2nd time in the chat room. Its a great place to get help
from R
experts. 
I have a data frame problem, it contains thousands of data.  

part of it, I am giving for explaining the problem 


 date day   x     y    z

82  1989-04-28 Fri   2118.0   2418.80  33713         
83  1989-05-01 Mon    0.0     2414.96  33793         
84  1989-05-02 Tue 2103.1    2402.86  33955        
85  1989-05-03 Wed 2105.7   2393.70      0         
86  1989-05-04 Thu  2119.0   2384.90      0         
87  1989-05-05 Fri    2132.8   2381.96      0         


103 1989-05-29 Mon    0.0    0.00     34161         
127 1989-06-30 Fri   2151.0  2440.06 32949         
128 1989-07-03 Mon 2165.6  2452.77 33236         

129 1989-07-04 Tue 2174.4    0       35376 
130 1989-07-05 Wed 2162.9 2456.56 33310         

167 1989-08-25 Fri   2397.4  2732.36  34740         
168 1989-08-28 Mon    0.0    2743.36  34607         
169 1989-08-29 Tue  2380.8 2726.63   34688         
170 1989-08-30 Wed 2381.3  2728.15  34472         
171 1989-08-31 Thu 2387.9   2737.27  34431         
172 1989-09-01 Fri   2407.5   2752.09  34348         

173 1989-09-04 Mon 2419.2    0.00 34484         
174 1989-09-05 Tue 2426.0 2744.68 34442         
175 1989-09-06 Wed 2390.8 2719.79 34271         
176 1989-09-07 Thu 2415.9 2706.88 34153         
177 1989-09-08 Fri 2423.9 2709.54 34116         
178 1989-09-11 Mon 2400.6 2704.41 34114         
179 1989-09-12 Tue 2397.6 2707.26 34333         
180 1989-09-13 Wed 2401.5 2679.52 34287         
181 1989-09-14 Thu 2382.0 2664.89 34402        

182 1989-09-15 Fri 2366.5 2674.58     0         
183 1989-09-18 Mon 2373.8 2687.50 34473        

195 1989-10-04 Wed 2312.1 2771.09 35383         
196 1989-10-05 Thu 2281.6 2773.56 35523         
197 1989-10-06 Fri 2277.5 2785.52 35209         
198 1989-10-09 Mon 2247.0 2791.41 35376         

199 1989-10-10 Tue 2218.8 2785.33     0         
200 1989-10-11 Wed 2218.8 2773.36 35240        


In this data frame, I need to replace cells which is zero with previous
value. 

For example

82  1989-04-28 Fri 2118.0 2418.80 33713         
83  1989-05-01 Mon    0.0 2414.96 33793         

in 2nd line 0.0 should be replaced by 2118.0

Another Example 

84  1989-05-02 Tue 2103.1 2402.86 33955        
85  1989-05-03 Wed 2105.7 2393.70     0         
86  1989-05-04 Thu 2119.0 2384.90      0         
87  1989-05-05 Fri   2132.8 2381.96      0         

3 lines filled by 33955 value. 

Another example 

198 1989-10-09 Mon 2247.0 2791.41 35376         
199 1989-10-10 Tue 2218.8 2785.33     0        
200 1989-10-11 Wed 2218.8 2773.36 35240   

in 2nd line filled by zero should be replaced by value 35376 

Please help me. 

Thanking you 

saikat


 

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