[R] rollapply() produces NAs

[Jeff Newmiller]

You will get better help if you read the Posting Guide mentioned at the foot if every posting including this one carefully and pay attention. 

A) You need to post in plain text, as your code came through the mailing list damaged.

B) You need to include sample data and make your code run from a clean R environment. See [1][2][3].

C) You need to make sure your function returns sensible results for short input vectors or input vectors with NA in them, as rollapply/embed need to be told how to handle the beginning/end of the series. 

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example

[2] http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Reproducibility.html

[3] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/reprex/index.html
-- 
Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

On May 28, 2017 7:58:59 AM PDT, Sepp via R-help <r-help at r-project.org> wrote:
>This is exactly what I want. However, with my function it produces a
>vector of NAs ...
>
>
>Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> schrieb am 16:23 Sonntag,
>28.Mai 2017:
>
>
>
>Maybe you want this.It computes VaRfun(r[c(i-500, i-1)] for each i for
>which the argument to r makes sense.
>
>rollapply(r, width = list(c(-500, -1)), FUN = VaRfun),
>
>
>On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 5:29 PM, Sepp via R-help <r-help at r-project.org>
>wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am fairly new to R and trying to calculate value at risk with
>exponentially decreasing weights.My function works for a single vector
>of returns but does not work with rollapply(), which is what I want to
>use. The function I am working on should assig exponentially decreasing
>weights to the K most recent returns and then order the returns in an
>ascending order. Subsequently it should pick the last return for which
>the cumulative sum of the weights is smaller or equal to a significance
>level. Thus, I am trying to construct a cumulative distribution
>function and find a quantile.
>> This is the function I wrote:
>> VaRfun <- function(x, lambda = 0.94) {
>> #create data.frame and order returns such that the lates return is
>the first  df <- data.frame(weight = c(1:length(x)), return = rev(x)) 
>K <- nrow(df)  constant <- (1-lambda)/(1-lambda^(K))#assign weights to
>the returns    for(i in 1:nrow(df)) {    df$weight[i] <- lambda^(i-1) *
>constant    }#order returns in an ascending order  df <-
>df[order(df$return),]
>> #add the cumulative sum of the weights  df$cum.weight <-
>cumsum(df$weight)
>> #calculate value at risk  VaR <- -tail((df$return[df$cum.weight <=
>.05]), 1)  signif(VaR, digits = 3)}
>> It works for a single vector of returns but if I try to use it with
>rollapply(), such as
>> rollapply(r, width = list(-500, -1), FUN = VaRfun),
>> it outputs a vector of NAs and I don't know why.
>> Thank you for your help!
>>         [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>> PLEASE do read the posting guide
>http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.