从非连续 table 计算经过的天数

calculate elapsed days from non-sequential table

我有一个table的加油,a,像这样:

a = setDT(structure(list(date = structure(c(NA, 16837, 16843, 16847, 16852, 
16854, 16858, 16862, 16867, 16871, 16874), class = "Date"), km = c(NA, 
NA, 421, 351, 286, 350, 414, 332, 401, 321, 350)), .Names = c("date", 
"km"), class = c("data.table", "data.frame"), row.names = c(NA, 
-11L)), key = "date")

它有加油日期和加油后行驶的公里数。我还得到了不同的 table 轮胎压力调整和换油日期,actions,像这样:

actions = setDT(structure(list(date = structure(c(16841, 16843, 16858, 16869), class = "Date"), 
    action = structure(c(1L, 2L, 2L, 2L), .Label = c("oil", "tires"
    ), class = "factor")), .Names = c("date", "action"), row.names = c(NA, 
-4L), class = c("data.table", "data.frame")), key = "action")

我需要将油耗(在 a 的真实版本中我也有加仑)与自上次轮胎压力检查和上次换油以来经过的天数联系起来。必须有一个简单的方法来实现这一点,但经过几个小时的尝试,我被卡住了。

这是我试过的:

library(data.table)
library(lubridate)
library(reshape2)

b <- dcast(actions, date ~ action, value.var = "date")

d <- seq(min(a$date, b$date, na.rm = TRUE), max(a$date, b$date, na.rm = TRUE), by = "day")
d <- data.table(date=d)
d <- b[d,]
d$daysOil <- as.double(difftime(d$date, d$date[! is.na(d$oil)], units = "days"))
d$daysOil[which(d$daysOil < 0)] <- NA

如果我尝试计算自上次 "tires" 事件以来经过的天数(更接近 之前 加油日期的天数,事情会变得更加复杂),这就是我被困的地方。

我的预期输出是:

expected
         date  km daysoil daysTires
1        <NA>  NA      NA        NA
2  2016-02-06  NA      NA        NA
3  2016-02-12 421       2         0
4  2016-02-16 351       6         4
5  2016-02-21 286      11         9
6  2016-02-23 350      13        11
7  2016-02-27 414      17         0
8  2016-03-02 332      21         4
9  2016-03-07 401      26         9
10 2016-03-11 321      30         2
11 2016-03-14 350      33         5

我会很感激任何解决方案,但最好使用 data.tabledplyr 包。

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如果您能想到更好的信息 (tables) 结构来完成这项任务,我们将不胜感激!

这是一种选择:

actions[, date.copy := date]

cbind(a,
      dcast(actions[, .SD[a, .(days = date - date.copy, N = .I), roll = T, on = 'date']
                    , by = action],
            N ~ action, value.var = 'days'))
#          date  km  N     oil   tires
# 1:       <NA>  NA  1 NA days NA days
# 2: 2016-02-06  NA  2 NA days NA days
# 3: 2016-02-12 421  3  2 days  0 days
# 4: 2016-02-16 351  4  6 days  4 days
# 5: 2016-02-21 286  5 11 days  9 days
# 6: 2016-02-23 350  6 13 days 11 days
# 7: 2016-02-27 414  7 17 days  0 days
# 8: 2016-03-02 332  8 21 days  4 days
# 9: 2016-03-07 401  9 26 days  9 days
#10: 2016-03-11 321 10 30 days  2 days
#11: 2016-03-14 350 11 33 days  5 days

以上是几件简单的事情 - 运行 分片理解。