Moving average of previous three values in R

You can use rollmean, but set align='right'. Or you could use rollmeanr, which has align='right' as the default.

ma3 <- rollmeanr(x[,1],3,fill=NA)

…but you would still need to lag the result. Another solution is to use rollapply with a list for the width argument:

ma3 <- rollapplyr(x[,1],list(-(3:1)),mean,fill=NA)

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