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Guojun Zhu

2006-May-01 07:34 UTC

[R] efficiency in merging two data frames

I have two data sets about lots of companies' stock
and fiscal data.  One is monthly data with about
144,000 lines, and the other is quaterly with about
56,000.  Each data set takes different company code. 
I need to merge these two together.  I read both ask
cvs.  And the other file with corresponding firm code.
 Now I have three data sets. return$PERMNO,
account$GVKEY.  id is the data frames of the
corresponding relation and has both id$PERMNO and
id$GVKEY.  Also, I need to convert the return's month
into quarter and finally merge two data frames(return
and account).  I end up write a short program for
this, but it runs very slow.  15+ minutes.  Is there
quick way to do it.  Here is my original codes.



id$fy=rep(0,length(id$PERMNO))
for (i in 1:length(id$PERMNO))

id$fy[[i]]<-account$FYR[id$GVKEY[[i]]==account$GVKEY][[1]]

return$GVKEY=rep(0,length(return$PERMNO))
return$fyy=rep(0,length(return$PERMNO))
return$fyq=rep(0,length(return$PERMNO))
for (i in i:length(return$PERMNO)) {
    temp<-id$PERMNO==return$PERMNO[[i]];
    tempmon<-id$fy[temp][[1]];
    if (return$month[[i]]<-tempmon) {
	return$fyy[[i]]<-return$year[[i]];
	return$fyq[[i]]<-4-(tempmon-return$month[[i]])%/%3;
	}
      else{
	return$fyy[[i]]<-return$year[[i]]+1;
	return$fyq[[i]]<-(return$month[[i]]-tempmon-1)%/%3;
	}
    return$GVKEY[[i]]<-id$GVKEY[temp][[1]];
}
   
returnnew=merge(return,account,by.x<-c("GVKEY","fyy","fyq"),by.y<-c("GVKEY","fyy","fyq"))

Gabor Grothendieck

2006-May-01 11:47 UTC

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[R] efficiency in merging two data frames

Some functions that may be of help:

?aggregate.ts
?cbind
?merge

and in the zoo package

?as.yearmon
?as.yearqtr
?aggregate.zoo
?merge.zoo

On 5/1/06, Guojun Zhu <shmilylemon at yahoo.com>
wrote:> I have two data sets about lots of companies' stock
> and fiscal data.  One is monthly data with about
> 144,000 lines, and the other is quaterly with about
> 56,000.  Each data set takes different company code.
> I need to merge these two together.  I read both ask
> cvs.  And the other file with corresponding firm code.
>  Now I have three data sets. return$PERMNO,
> account$GVKEY.  id is the data frames of the
> corresponding relation and has both id$PERMNO and
> id$GVKEY.  Also, I need to convert the return's month
> into quarter and finally merge two data frames(return
> and account).  I end up write a short program for
> this, but it runs very slow.  15+ minutes.  Is there
> quick way to do it.  Here is my original codes.
>
>
>
> id$fy=rep(0,length(id$PERMNO))
> for (i in 1:length(id$PERMNO))
>
> id$fy[[i]]<-account$FYR[id$GVKEY[[i]]==account$GVKEY][[1]]
>
> return$GVKEY=rep(0,length(return$PERMNO))
> return$fyy=rep(0,length(return$PERMNO))
> return$fyq=rep(0,length(return$PERMNO))
> for (i in i:length(return$PERMNO)) {
>    temp<-id$PERMNO==return$PERMNO[[i]];
>    tempmon<-id$fy[temp][[1]];
>    if (return$month[[i]]<-tempmon) {
>        return$fyy[[i]]<-return$year[[i]];
>        return$fyq[[i]]<-4-(tempmon-return$month[[i]])%/%3;
>        }
>      else{
>        return$fyy[[i]]<-return$year[[i]]+1;
>        return$fyq[[i]]<-(return$month[[i]]-tempmon-1)%/%3;
>        }
>    return$GVKEY[[i]]<-id$GVKEY[temp][[1]];
> }
>
>
returnnew=merge(return,account,by.x<-c("GVKEY","fyy","fyq"),by.y<-c("GVKEY","fyy","fyq"))
>
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Steve Miller

2006-May-01 12:54 UTC

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[R] efficiency in merging two data frames

I'm sure you'll get ingenious responses to help you optimize your R
code. I
deal with similar investment data in even larger numbers (e.g. 10 years of
daily return data for each stock in the Russell 3000), and prefer reading
and consolidating the data in Python using dictionaries and lists, then
either piping the data to R in a read statement (read.table("pipe
python...")) or using Rpy to write R data frames directly from Python.
Python is more facile with these basic data manipulations for hundreds of
thousands or even millions of records, and performance is generally
considerably better.

Steve Miller 

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Guojun Zhu
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 2:35 AM
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] efficiency in merging two data frames

I have two data sets about lots of companies' stock
and fiscal data.  One is monthly data with about
144,000 lines, and the other is quaterly with about
56,000.  Each data set takes different company code. 
I need to merge these two together.  I read both ask
cvs.  And the other file with corresponding firm code.
 Now I have three data sets. return$PERMNO,
account$GVKEY.  id is the data frames of the
corresponding relation and has both id$PERMNO and
id$GVKEY.  Also, I need to convert the return's month
into quarter and finally merge two data frames(return
and account).  I end up write a short program for
this, but it runs very slow.  15+ minutes.  Is there
quick way to do it.  Here is my original codes.



id$fy=rep(0,length(id$PERMNO))
for (i in 1:length(id$PERMNO))

id$fy[[i]]<-account$FYR[id$GVKEY[[i]]==account$GVKEY][[1]]

return$GVKEY=rep(0,length(return$PERMNO))
return$fyy=rep(0,length(return$PERMNO))
return$fyq=rep(0,length(return$PERMNO))
for (i in i:length(return$PERMNO)) {
    temp<-id$PERMNO==return$PERMNO[[i]];
    tempmon<-id$fy[temp][[1]];
    if (return$month[[i]]<-tempmon) {
	return$fyy[[i]]<-return$year[[i]];
	return$fyq[[i]]<-4-(tempmon-return$month[[i]])%/%3;
	}
      else{
	return$fyy[[i]]<-return$year[[i]]+1;
	return$fyq[[i]]<-(return$month[[i]]-tempmon-1)%/%3;
	}
    return$GVKEY[[i]]<-id$GVKEY[temp][[1]];
}
   
returnnew=merge(return,account,by.x<-c("GVKEY","fyy","fyq"),by.y<-c("GVKEY",
"fyy","fyq"))

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bogdan romocea

2006-May-01 14:37 UTC

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[R] efficiency in merging two data frames

Another good option is SQL, the fastest and most scalable solution. If
you decide to give it a try pay close attention to indexes.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Steve Miller
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 8:55 AM
> To: 'Guojun Zhu'; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] efficiency in merging two data frames
>
> I'm sure you'll get ingenious responses to help you optimize
> your R code. I
> deal with similar investment data in even larger numbers
> (e.g. 10 years of
> daily return data for each stock in the Russell 3000), and
> prefer reading
> and consolidating the data in Python using dictionaries and
> lists, then
> either piping the data to R in a read statement (read.table("pipe
> python...")) or using Rpy to write R data frames directly from Python.
> Python is more facile with these basic data manipulations for
> hundreds of
> thousands or even millions of records, and performance is generally
> considerably better.
>
> Steve Miller
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Guojun Zhu
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 2:35 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] efficiency in merging two data frames
>
> I have two data sets about lots of companies' stock
> and fiscal data.  One is monthly data with about
> 144,000 lines, and the other is quaterly with about
> 56,000.  Each data set takes different company code.
> I need to merge these two together.  I read both ask
> cvs.  And the other file with corresponding firm code.
>  Now I have three data sets. return$PERMNO,
> account$GVKEY.  id is the data frames of the
> corresponding relation and has both id$PERMNO and
> id$GVKEY.  Also, I need to convert the return's month
> into quarter and finally merge two data frames(return
> and account).  I end up write a short program for
> this, but it runs very slow.  15+ minutes.  Is there
> quick way to do it.  Here is my original codes.
>
>
>
> id$fy=rep(0,length(id$PERMNO))
> for (i in 1:length(id$PERMNO))
>
> id$fy[[i]]<-account$FYR[id$GVKEY[[i]]==account$GVKEY][[1]]
>
> return$GVKEY=rep(0,length(return$PERMNO))
> return$fyy=rep(0,length(return$PERMNO))
> return$fyq=rep(0,length(return$PERMNO))
> for (i in i:length(return$PERMNO)) {
>     temp<-id$PERMNO==return$PERMNO[[i]];
>     tempmon<-id$fy[temp][[1]];
>     if (return$month[[i]]<-tempmon) {
> 	return$fyy[[i]]<-return$year[[i]];
> 	return$fyq[[i]]<-4-(tempmon-return$month[[i]])%/%3;
> 	}
>       else{
> 	return$fyy[[i]]<-return$year[[i]]+1;
> 	return$fyq[[i]]<-(return$month[[i]]-tempmon-1)%/%3;
> 	}
>     return$GVKEY[[i]]<-id$GVKEY[temp][[1]];
> }
>
>
returnnew=merge(return,account,by.x<-c("GVKEY","fyy","fyq"),by
> .y<-c("GVKEY",
> "fyy","fyq"))
>
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Petr Pikal

2006-May-02 07:55 UTC

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[R] efficiency in merging two data frames

Hi

and you would better to give up thinking in "for cycles" as a good 
tool for data manipulation and calculation. 

R has usually functions for direct manipulation and calculation with 
vectors or matrices, vhich are far more effective than calculation in 
cycle.

I also recommend you to go through Paul Johnsons Rtips which is set 
of many good ideas how to do some things.

HTH
Petr

On 1 May 2006 at 7:54, Steve Miller wrote:

From:           	"Steve Miller" <steve.miller at jhu.edu>
To:             	"'Guojun Zhu'" <shmilylemon at
yahoo.com>,
	<r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Date sent:      	Mon, 1 May 2006 07:54:54 -0500
Subject:        	Re: [R] efficiency in merging two data frames
> I'm sure you'll get ingenious responses to help you optimize your R
> code. I deal with similar investment data in even larger numbers (e.g.
> 10 years of daily return data for each stock in the Russell 3000), and
> prefer reading and consolidating the data in Python using dictionaries
> and lists, then either piping the data to R in a read statement
> (read.table("pipe python...")) or using Rpy to write R data
frames
> directly from Python. Python is more facile with these basic data
> manipulations for hundreds of thousands or even millions of records,
> and performance is generally considerably better.
> 
> Steve Miller 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Guojun Zhu
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 2:35 AM To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] efficiency in merging two data frames
> 
> I have two data sets about lots of companies' stock
> and fiscal data.  One is monthly data with about
> 144,000 lines, and the other is quaterly with about
> 56,000.  Each data set takes different company code. 
> I need to merge these two together.  I read both ask
> cvs.  And the other file with corresponding firm code.
>  Now I have three data sets. return$PERMNO,
> account$GVKEY.  id is the data frames of the
> corresponding relation and has both id$PERMNO and
> id$GVKEY.  Also, I need to convert the return's month
> into quarter and finally merge two data frames(return
> and account).  I end up write a short program for
> this, but it runs very slow.  15+ minutes.  Is there
> quick way to do it.  Here is my original codes.
> 
> 
> 
> id$fy=rep(0,length(id$PERMNO))
> for (i in 1:length(id$PERMNO))
> 
> id$fy[[i]]<-account$FYR[id$GVKEY[[i]]==account$GVKEY][[1]]
> 
> return$GVKEY=rep(0,length(return$PERMNO))
> return$fyy=rep(0,length(return$PERMNO))
> return$fyq=rep(0,length(return$PERMNO))
> for (i in i:length(return$PERMNO)) {
>     temp<-id$PERMNO==return$PERMNO[[i]];
>     tempmon<-id$fy[temp][[1]];
>     if (return$month[[i]]<-tempmon) {
>  return$fyy[[i]]<-return$year[[i]];
>  return$fyq[[i]]<-4-(tempmon-return$month[[i]])%/%3;
>  }
>       else{
>  return$fyy[[i]]<-return$year[[i]]+1;
>  return$fyq[[i]]<-(return$month[[i]]-tempmon-1)%/%3;
>  }
>     return$GVKEY[[i]]<-id$GVKEY[temp][[1]];
> }
> 
>
returnnew=merge(return,account,by.x<-c("GVKEY","fyy","fyq"),by.y<-c("G
> VKEY", "fyy","fyq"))
> 
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