How to create a lag variable within each group?

by

You could do this within data.table

 library(data.table)
 data[, lag.value:=c(NA, value[-.N]), by=groups]
  data
 #   time groups       value   lag.value
 #1:    1      a  0.02779005          NA
 #2:    2      a  0.88029938  0.02779005
 #3:    3      a -1.69514201  0.88029938
 #4:    1      b -1.27560288          NA
 #5:    2      b -0.65976434 -1.27560288
 #6:    3      b -1.37804943 -0.65976434
 #7:    4      b  0.12041778 -1.37804943

For multiple columns:

nm1 <- grep("^value", colnames(data), value=TRUE)
nm2 <- paste("lag", nm1, sep=".")
data[, (nm2):=lapply(.SD, function(x) c(NA, x[-.N])), by=groups, .SDcols=nm1]
 data
#    time groups      value     value1      value2  lag.value lag.value1
#1:    1      b -0.6264538  0.7383247  1.12493092         NA         NA
#2:    2      b  0.1836433  0.5757814 -0.04493361 -0.6264538  0.7383247
#3:    3      b -0.8356286 -0.3053884 -0.01619026  0.1836433  0.5757814
#4:    1      a  1.5952808  1.5117812  0.94383621         NA         NA
#5:    2      a  0.3295078  0.3898432  0.82122120  1.5952808  1.5117812
#6:    3      a -0.8204684 -0.6212406  0.59390132  0.3295078  0.3898432
#7:    4      a  0.4874291 -2.2146999  0.91897737 -0.8204684 -0.6212406
#    lag.value2
#1:          NA
#2:  1.12493092
#3: -0.04493361
#4:          NA
#5:  0.94383621
#6:  0.82122120
#7:  0.59390132

Update

From data.table versions >= v1.9.5, we can use shift with type as lag or lead. By default, the type is lag. 

data[, (nm2) :=  shift(.SD), by=groups, .SDcols=nm1]
#   time groups      value     value1      value2  lag.value lag.value1
#1:    1      b -0.6264538  0.7383247  1.12493092         NA         NA
#2:    2      b  0.1836433  0.5757814 -0.04493361 -0.6264538  0.7383247
#3:    3      b -0.8356286 -0.3053884 -0.01619026  0.1836433  0.5757814
#4:    1      a  1.5952808  1.5117812  0.94383621         NA         NA
#5:    2      a  0.3295078  0.3898432  0.82122120  1.5952808  1.5117812
#6:    3      a -0.8204684 -0.6212406  0.59390132  0.3295078  0.3898432
#7:    4      a  0.4874291 -2.2146999  0.91897737 -0.8204684 -0.6212406
#    lag.value2
#1:          NA
#2:  1.12493092
#3: -0.04493361
#4:          NA
#5:  0.94383621
#6:  0.82122120
#7:  0.59390132

If you need the reverse, use type=lead

nm3 <- paste("lead", nm1, sep=".")

Using the original dataset

  data[, (nm3) := shift(.SD, type="lead"), by = groups, .SDcols=nm1]
  #  time groups      value     value1      value2 lead.value lead.value1
  #1:    1      b -0.6264538  0.7383247  1.12493092  0.1836433   0.5757814
  #2:    2      b  0.1836433  0.5757814 -0.04493361 -0.8356286  -0.3053884
  #3:    3      b -0.8356286 -0.3053884 -0.01619026         NA          NA
  #4:    1      a  1.5952808  1.5117812  0.94383621  0.3295078   0.3898432
  #5:    2      a  0.3295078  0.3898432  0.82122120 -0.8204684  -0.6212406
  #6:    3      a -0.8204684 -0.6212406  0.59390132  0.4874291  -2.2146999
  #7:    4      a  0.4874291 -2.2146999  0.91897737         NA          NA
 #   lead.value2
 #1: -0.04493361
 #2: -0.01619026
 #3:          NA
 #4:  0.82122120
 #5:  0.59390132
 #6:  0.91897737
 #7:          NA

data

 set.seed(1)
 data <- data.table(time =c(1:3,1:4),groups = c(rep(c("b","a"),c(3,4))),
             value = rnorm(7), value1=rnorm(7), value2=rnorm(7))

More Related Contents:

  1. Why does summarize or mutate not work with group_by when I load `plyr` after `dplyr`?
  2. Extract row corresponding to minimum value of a variable by group
  3. How to select the rows with maximum values in each group with dplyr? [duplicate]
  4. Group by multiple columns and sum other multiple columns
  5. Why are my dplyr group_by & summarize not working properly? (name-collision with plyr)
  6. data.table vs dplyr: can one do something well the other can’t or does poorly?
  7. Is there a dplyr equivalent to data.table::rleid?
  8. Getting the top values by group
  9. Fastest way to add rows for missing time steps?
  10. Unique rows, considering two columns, in R, without order
  11. Applying a function to every row of a table using dplyr?
  12. dplyr summarise: Equivalent of “.drop=FALSE” to keep groups with zero length in output
  13. dplyr: “Error in n(): function should not be called directly”
  14. dplyr mutate/replace several columns on a subset of rows
  15. Count number of rows by group using dplyr
  16. How to strsplit different number of strings in certain column by do function
  17. Finding Overlaps between interval sets / Efficient Overlap Joins
  18. Change value of variable with dplyr
  19. dplyr on data.table, am I really using data.table?
  20. Why is plyr so slow?
  21. Merge rows in a dataframe where the rows are disjoint and contain NAs
  22. How to speed up subset by groups
  23. Canonical tidyverse method to update some values of a vector from a look-up table
  24. data.table row-wise sum, mean, min, max like dplyr?
  25. grouped operations that result in length not equal to 1 or length of group in dplyr
  26. How to use data.table within functions and loops?
  27. Count non-NA values by group [duplicate]
  28. combine two data frames with all posible combinations
  29. Error with select function from dplyr
  30. Add row in each group using dplyr and add_row()

Leave a Comment