Getting minimum value of a column according a factor column of a dataframe
Dear all; Many thanks for your suggestions and answers. The problem was solved by the codes that Rui sent just now. Jim's codes also were correct but did not give the results in original order. Dear avi.e.gross at gmail.co, has provided codes but they just result in columns with max or min but they did not give the whole row's values related to the Q min. Thank you so much again. Sincerely
On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 8:44 AM Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas at sapo.pt> wrote:
Hello, To return 2 rows for each Code, one for the min and another for the max, try the following. I'm borrowing Bert's by() idea, it makes everything simpler. There is a hack to have the original Code order kept, since the final result res should have two rows for each Code, see what is order()'ed below. # the output has 2 consecutive rows with # the same Code, so repeat the unique Codes i <- order(rep(unique(df1$Code), each = 2)) res <- by(df1, df1$Code, \(x) x[c(which.min(x$Q), which.max(x$Q)), ]) res <- do.call(rbind, res)[order(i), ] # remake the row names, they're ugly after rbind row.names(res) <- NULL res Hope this helps, Rui Barradas ?s 19:02 de 25/08/2022, javad bayat escreveu:
;Dear all First of all I appreciate you for the answers you have sent. I did the codes that Rui provided and I got what I wanted. " res <- lapply(split(df1, df1$Code), \(x) x[which.min(x$Q),]) res <- do.call(rbind, res) i <- order(unique(df1$Code)) res[order(i), ] " I think I should explain more about my request. I had a large data frame (11059 rows and 16 columns). The Code column represented the stations
code,
totally the number of stations were 128. At each station I had many measured variables, like Q and N and O, and these variables were measured in different years and days. The days that data were measured were different for each station, and due to this reason I had different rows
for
stations. For example, station number one (41009) had 158 rows and
station
number 2 (41011) had 113 rows. Note that the station's codes are not in order format (e.g smallest to largest). Back to my request, I wanted to extract the minimum value of the Q for
each
station (based on the Code column). The problem was that I wanted to have other column values which were measured for this minimum of the Q. I hope my explanation was clear enough. As I said before, I used the
Rui's
codes and I got what I wanted. Although, other solutions provided by
others
were all correct. Regarding my request, unfortunately I faced another problem. I had to extract the maximum of the Q and put it exactly under the minimum of the
Q.
Something like the below one:
"
Code
Y
M
D
Q
N
O
41003
81
1
19
0.16
7.17
2.5
41003
79
8
17
10.21
5.5
7.2
41009
79
2
21
0.218
5.56
4.04
41009 79 10 20 12.24 5.3 7.1
.
.
.
.
"
I extract both min and max according to the codes, and I have 2
dataframes,
one for the minimum values and another for the max values. Both dataframe have a Code column which is exactly similar. Can I extract both min and max simultaneously or I have to combine two dataframes? I used the rbind and merge function but they did not give the desired results.
df3 = merge (df1, df2, by = "Code")
The result of this code adds a second dataframe as columns to the first one. I want the first row of the second dataframe put below the first row of the first dataframe and so on. I used a function to do this but it
seems
it does not work correctly.
fun2 = function(x,y){
i = 1
for(i in x) {
if (x[i,1] == y[i,1]){
rbind(x[i,],y[i,])
i = i+1
}
}
}
fun2(df1, df2)
Sincerely On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 9:08 PM <avi.e.gross at gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, Timothy, the request was not seen by all of us as the same. Indeed if the request was to show a subset of the original data
consisting
of only the rows that were the minimum for each Code and also showed
ties,
then the solution is a tad more complex. I would then do something along the lines of what others showed such as generating another column showing
the
minimum for each row and then showing only rows that matched their
value in
two columns or whatever was needed. As noted, keeping the output in a specific order was not initially requested. Keeping the data in some order is a common enough request but in this situation, I suspect the order many might want would be the one showing
the
minimums in order, not the codes in the original order. -----Original Message----- From: Ebert,Timothy Aaron <tebert at ufl.edu> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2022 11:59 AM To: avi.e.gross at gmail.com Cc: R-help at r-project.org Subject: RE: [R] Getting minimum value of a column according a factor column of a dataframe My assumption (maybe wrong) was that we needed to keep the other
variables.
I want to find the values of Y, M, D, N, and O for the minimum value of
Q
within each unique value of Code, keeping the data in the original
order.
All one need to do is filter Q in the original dataframe by your answer
for
minQ. Keeping the data in the original order seems unnecessary, but that is
what
was asked in a later post.
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