Inserting rows of interpolated data
Hi Jon, zoo is great for tasks like this, not just for na.approx. :) I would approach the problem like this: library(zoo) # put lightdata into a zoo object z <- with(lightdata, zoo(light, as.POSIXct(paste(date, time), format="%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S"))) # merge the above zoo object with an "empty" zoo # object that has all the index values you want Z <- merge(z, zoo(,seq(start(z),end(z),by="1 min"))) # interpolate between the 5-min observatoins Z <- na.approx(Z) HTH, -- Joshua Ulrich | about.me/joshuaulrich FOSS Trading | www.fosstrading.com R/Finance 2013: Applied Finance with R | www.RinFinance.com
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Benstead, Jonathan <jbenstead at as.ua.edu> wrote:
Dear help list - I have light data with 5-min time-stamps. I would like to insert four 1-min time-stamps between each row and interpolate the light data on each new row. To do this I have come up with the following code:
lightdata <- read.table("Test_light_data.csv", header = TRUE, sep = ",") # read data file into object "lightdata"
library(chron)
mins <- data.frame(times(1:1439/1440)) # generate a dataframe of 24 hours of 1-min timestamps
Nth.delete <- function(dataframe, n)dataframe[-(seq(n, to=nrow(dataframe), by=n)),] # function for deleting nth row
empty <- data.frame("1/9/13", Nth.delete(mins, 5), "NA") # delete all 5-min timestamps in a new dataframe
colnames(empty) <- c("date", "time", "light") # add correct column name to empty timestamp dataframe
newdata <- rbind(lightdata, empty)
I get the following error message:
Warning message:
In `[<-.factor`(`*tmp*`, ri, value = c(0.000694444444444444, 0.00138888888888889, :
invalid factor level, NAs generated
Digging into this a little, I can see that the two time columns are doing what I need and APPEAR to be similar in format:
head(lightdata)
date time light 1 1/9/13 0:00:00 -0.00040925 2 1/9/13 0:05:00 -0.00023386 3 1/9/13 0:10:00 -0.00032155 4 1/9/13 0:15:00 -0.00017539 5 1/9/13 0:20:00 -0.00029232 6 1/9/13 0:25:00 -0.00038002
head(empty)
date time light 1 1/9/13 00:01:00 NA 2 1/9/13 00:02:00 NA 3 1/9/13 00:03:00 NA 4 1/9/13 00:04:00 NA 5 1/9/13 00:06:00 NA 6 1/9/13 00:07:00 NA but they clearly are not as far as R is concerned, as shown by str:
str(lightdata)
'data.frame': 288 obs. of 3 variables: $ date : Factor w/ 1 level "1/9/13": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... $ time : Factor w/ 288 levels "0:00:00","0:05:00",..: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... $ light: num -0.000409 -0.000234 -0.000322 -0.000175 -0.000292 ...
str(empty)
'data.frame': 1152 obs. of 3 variables: $ date : Factor w/ 1 level "1/9/13": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... $ time :Class 'times' atomic [1:1152] 0.000694 0.001389 0.002083 0.002778 0.004167 ... .. ..- attr(*, "format")= chr "h:m:s" $ light: Factor w/ 1 level "NA": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... In the first (original) dataframe, light is a factor, while in the dataframe of generated timestamps, the timestamps are actually still in fractions of a day. Presumably this is why rbind is not working? Can anyone help? By the way, I know I can use na.approx in zoo to do the eventual interpolation of the light data. It's getting there that has me stumped for now. Many thanks, Jon (new R user).
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