Halyomorpha halys; observation time-series irregular: regularized weekly capture rates

Hello
I just registered on the list.
I am an agricultural technician and I am collaborating on a research
project on agroforestry and Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Halyomorpha
halys, abbreviated BMSB).
The project will also address, at least as a draft (it is a very
difficult topic), the modeling of the movements of the BMSB and its
parasitoids.
I am trying to activate an ongoing collaboration with a group of
computer scientists I know.
However for now, to approach the R mailing lists, I have a question
that I would like to post on r-help, but unfortunately there is an
error in the subscription.
I think this mailing list could also be included.
Through kobotoolbox we are collecting data of catches in traps on
farms. Farms register inconsistently.
I am trying to use packages for irregular time series, but I cannot
figure out how to sum the weekly data correctly.

You can do this by using the group_by() function in dplyr. Here's an 
example:


library(dplyr)

# First some fictitious data

# number of capture data points

n = 30

# random integer values for capture counts

captures = as.integer(runif(n)*10)

# 30 random dates from the period between jan 1 and the following 60 days
dates = sort(as.Date("2021-01-01") + sample(1:60, n))

week_nums = strftime(dates, "$U")

captures_df = data.frame("Date" = dates,

 ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? "Captures" = captures,

 ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? "Week_num" = week_nums)

 > head(captures_df)
 ??????? Date Captures Week_num
1 2021-01-06??????? 2?????? 01
2 2021-01-07??????? 2?????? 01
3 2021-01-08??????? 6?????? 01
4 2021-01-09??????? 3?????? 01
5 2021-01-12??????? 9?????? 02
6 2021-01-13??????? 8?????? 02


# Now we can group_by the Week_sum column and sum captures for each week:

captures_weekly = captures_df %>%

 ??? ??? group_by(Week_num) %>%

 ??? ??? summarize(Weekly_sum = sum(Captures))
captures_weekly
# A tibble: 9 x 2
 ? Week_num Weekly_sum
 ? <chr>???????? <int>
1 01?????????????? 13
2 02?????????????? 17
3 03??????????????? 9
4 04?????????????? 25
5 05?????????????? 11
6 06?????????????? 19
7 07??????????????? 8
8 08?????????????? 26
9 09??????????????? 4


The above is for a single year. If you need do weekly sums for 
multi-year data, then specify also the year in the "Weekly_sum" column, 
i.e.:

week_nums = strftime(dates, "%Y-%U")


HTH,

Micha

To give an example: if a farmer enters the data on Thursday and Tuesday
of the following week, on Tuesday in the trap he will find individuals
who were also captured on Friday and Saturday, which formally are to be
considered in the previous week. I know it's trivial, but maybe there
is an appropriate statistical method inside some package.
Thank you

Micha Silver
Ben Gurion Univ.
Sde Boker, Remote Sensing Lab
cell: +972-523-665918