嗨,我对R中的重复问题感到困惑。我四处寻找了很多,似乎没有找到任何帮助。我有一个类似的数据集
x = data.frame( id = c("A","A","A","A","A","A","A","B","B","B","B"),
StartDate = c("09/07/2006", "09/07/2006", "09/07/2006", "08/10/2006",
"08/10/2006", "09/04/2007", "02/03/2011","05/05/2005", "08/06/2009", "07/09/2009", "07/09/2009"),
EndDate = c("06/08/2006", "06/08/2006", "06/08/2006", "19/11/2006", "19/11/2006", "07/05/2007", "30/03/2011",
"02/06/2005", "06/07/2009", "05/10/2009", "05/10/2009"),
Group = c(1,1,1,2,2,3,4,2,3,4,4),
TestDate = c("09/06/2006", "08/09/2006", "08/10/2006", "08/09/2006", "08/10/2006", "NA", "02/03/2011",
"NA", "07/09/2009", "07/09/2009", "08/10/2009"),
Code = c(4,4,4858,4,4858,NA,4,NA, 795, 795, 4)
)
> x
id StartDate EndDate Group TestDate Code
1 A 09/07/2006 06/08/2006 1 09/06/2006 4
2 A 09/07/2006 06/08/2006 1 08/09/2006 4
3 A 09/07/2006 06/08/2006 1 08/10/2006 4858
4 A 08/10/2006 19/11/2006 2 08/09/2006 4
5 A 08/10/2006 19/11/2006 2 08/10/2006 4858
6 A 09/04/2007 07/05/2007 3 NA NA
7 A 02/03/2011 30/03/2011 4 02/03/2011 4
8 B 05/05/2005 02/06/2005 2 NA NA
9 B 08/06/2009 06/07/2009 3 07/09/2009 795
10 B 07/09/2009 05/10/2009 4 07/09/2009 795
11 B 07/09/2009 05/10/2009 4 08/10/2009 4
因此,基本上我要做的是通过ID来识别TestDate变量中的重复项。例如,2006年9月8日和2006年10月8日似乎在同一个人身上重复,但针对不同的组,我不希望相同的TestDate通过ID出现在不同的组中。选择要选择的测试日期的标准是,将不同组的测试日期与StartDate和EndDate的天数差异,然后保留天数差异最小的一个。例如,关于2006年10月8日,我想保留第5行作为测试日期,与第3行的相同差异相比,第5行更接近开始日期。最终,我想得到一个像这样的数据集
> xfinal
id StartDate EndDate Group TestDate Code
1 A 09/07/2006 06/08/2006 1 09/06/2006 4
4 A 08/10/2006 19/11/2006 2 08/09/2006 4
5 A 08/10/2006 19/11/2006 2 08/10/2006 4858
6 A 09/04/2007 07/05/2007 3 NA NA
7 A 02/03/2011 30/03/2011 4 02/03/2011 4
8 B 05/05/2005 02/06/2005 2 NA NA
10 B 07/09/2009 05/10/2009 4 07/09/2009 795
11 B 07/09/2009 05/10/2009 4 08/10/2009 4
如有任何帮助,我们将不胜感激。感谢
x$StartDate <- as.Date(x$StartDate,format="%d/%m/%Y")
x$EndDate <- as.Date(x$EndDate,format="%d/%m/%Y")
x$TestDate <- as.Date(x$TestDate,format="%d/%m/%Y")
x$Diff <- difftime(x$EndDate,x$StartDate,"days")
x <- x[order(x$id,x$Diff),]
x <- x[!duplicated(x[,c("id","TestDate")]),]
x$Diff <- NULL
x