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Miluji Sb

2020-Jul-14 22:26 UTC

[R] Year and month from a sequence

Dear all,
I have a panel dataset with a large number of groups (200K+) with a
sequence representing the month of the observations (2400 - 4139). The data
is from January 1861 to December 2005.
My goal is to extract the corresponding month and year for each observation.

I tried the following;
x$dt <- seq(from=as.Date("1861-01-01"),by='1
month',length=209000)

However, the end date is clearly out of the range. I would like to convert
the month number (2400 - 4139) to January 1861 to December 2005 by ID. How
can I achieve this? Any help will be highly appreciated.

Best,

Milu

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Jim Lemon

2020-Jul-14 22:58 UTC

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[R] Year and month from a sequence

Hi Milu,
This is similar to the "birthday age" problem as it is much easier to
deal with the constant "12 months in a year" rather than the highly
variable number of days between two dates:

monthno2my<-function(x,startyear=1861,startmonth=2400) {
 year<-startyear+(x-startmonth)%/%12
 month<-1+(x-startmonth)%%12
 return(paste(month.abb[month],year))
}

Adjust this to suit what sort of output you want (i.e. numeric, date).

Jim

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 8:26 AM Miluji Sb <milujisb at gmail.com>
wrote:>
> Dear all,
> I have a panel dataset with a large number of groups (200K+) with a
> sequence representing the month of the observations (2400 - 4139). The data
> is from January 1861 to December 2005.
> My goal is to extract the corresponding month and year for each
observation.
>
> I tried the following;
> x$dt <- seq(from=as.Date("1861-01-01"),by='1
month',length=209000)
>
> However, the end date is clearly out of the range. I would like to convert
> the month number (2400 - 4139) to January 1861 to December 2005 by ID. How
> can I achieve this? Any help will be highly appreciated.
>
> Best,
>
> Milu
>
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>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

Eric Berger

2020-Jul-15 07:04 UTC

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[R] Year and month from a sequence

Hi Milu,
Jim gave a good solution. Another approach is to use standard packages
and objects.
In particular 'ts' (time series) objects from the stats package, and
'xts' (extensible time-series) objects from the xts package.

library(xts)
# construct dummy data
z <- rnorm(36)
# convert it into a monthly time series starting from January 1861
a <- ts(z,start=c(1861,1),frequency=12)
# create an xts object from 'a'
b <- as.xts(a)

# you can use index(b) to get what you want, e.g.
as.Date(index(b))
#  [1] "1861-01-01" "1861-02-01" "1861-03-01"
"1861-04-01"
"1861-05-01" "1861-06-01"
# [7] "1861-07-01" "1861-08-01" "1861-09-01"
"1861-10-01" "1861-11-01"
"1861-12-01"
# [13] "1862-01-01" "1862-02-01" "1862-03-01"
"1862-04-01"
"1862-05-01" "1862-06-01"
# [19] "1862-07-01" "1862-08-01" "1862-09-01"
"1862-10-01"
"1862-11-01" "1862-12-01"
# [25] "1863-01-01" "1863-02-01" "1863-03-01"
"1863-04-01"
"1863-05-01" "1863-06-01"
# [31] "1863-07-01" "1863-08-01" "1863-09-01"
"1863-10-01"
"1863-11-01" "1863-12-01"

HTH,
Eric






On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 1:59 AM Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com>
wrote:>
> Hi Milu,
> This is similar to the "birthday age" problem as it is much
easier to
> deal with the constant "12 months in a year" rather than the
highly
> variable number of days between two dates:
>
> monthno2my<-function(x,startyear=1861,startmonth=2400) {
>  year<-startyear+(x-startmonth)%/%12
>  month<-1+(x-startmonth)%%12
>  return(paste(month.abb[month],year))
> }
>
> Adjust this to suit what sort of output you want (i.e. numeric, date).
>
> Jim
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 8:26 AM Miluji Sb <milujisb at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> > I have a panel dataset with a large number of groups (200K+) with a
> > sequence representing the month of the observations (2400 - 4139). The
data
> > is from January 1861 to December 2005.
> > My goal is to extract the corresponding month and year for each
observation.
> >
> > I tried the following;
> > x$dt <- seq(from=as.Date("1861-01-01"),by='1
month',length=209000)
> >
> > However, the end date is clearly out of the range. I would like to
convert
> > the month number (2400 - 4139) to January 1861 to December 2005 by ID.
How
> > can I achieve this? Any help will be highly appreciated.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Milu
> >
> >         [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> >
> > ______________________________________________
> > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> > PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

Rui Barradas

2020-Jul-15 07:20 UTC

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[R] Year and month from a sequence

Hello,

Yet another way, with package lubridate.
When creating the "Date" objects, I set day = 1 to compare to TRUE
below.


library(lubridate)

start <- as.Date(ISOdate(1861, 1, 1))
end <- as.Date(ISOdate(2005, 12, 1))

start + months(4139 - 2400)
#[1] "2005-12-01"

end == start + months(4139 - 2400)
#[1] TRUE


The argument to function months can be a vector of integers.


start + months(1:(4139 - 2400))



Then extract the months.

month(start)
month(end)
month(start + months(<value>))
month(start + months(4139 - 2400))


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

?s 23:26 de 14/07/20, Miluji Sb escreveu:> Dear all,
> I have a panel dataset with a large number of groups (200K+) with a
> sequence representing the month of the observations (2400 - 4139). The data
> is from January 1861 to December 2005.
> My goal is to extract the corresponding month and year for each
observation.
> 
> I tried the following;
> x$dt <- seq(from=as.Date("1861-01-01"),by='1
month',length=209000)
> 
> However, the end date is clearly out of the range. I would like to convert
> the month number (2400 - 4139) to January 1861 to December 2005 by ID. How
> can I achieve this? Any help will be highly appreciated.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Milu
> 
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>

Miluji Sb

2020-Jul-16 17:50 UTC

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[R] Year and month from a sequence

Dear Jim, Eric, and Rui,

Great solutions! Thank you so much.

Best,

Milu

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 9:20 AM Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas at sapo.pt>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Yet another way, with package lubridate.
> When creating the "Date" objects, I set day = 1 to compare to
TRUE below.
>
>
> library(lubridate)
>
> start <- as.Date(ISOdate(1861, 1, 1))
> end <- as.Date(ISOdate(2005, 12, 1))
>
> start + months(4139 - 2400)
> #[1] "2005-12-01"
>
> end == start + months(4139 - 2400)
> #[1] TRUE
>
>
> The argument to function months can be a vector of integers.
>
>
> start + months(1:(4139 - 2400))
>
>
>
> Then extract the months.
>
> month(start)
> month(end)
> month(start + months(<value>))
> month(start + months(4139 - 2400))
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rui Barradas
>
> ?s 23:26 de 14/07/20, Miluji Sb escreveu:
> > Dear all,
> > I have a panel dataset with a large number of groups (200K+) with a
> > sequence representing the month of the observations (2400 - 4139). The
> data
> > is from January 1861 to December 2005.
> > My goal is to extract the corresponding month and year for each
> observation.
> >
> > I tried the following;
> > x$dt <- seq(from=as.Date("1861-01-01"),by='1
month',length=209000)
> >
> > However, the end date is clearly out of the range. I would like to
> convert
> > the month number (2400 - 4139) to January 1861 to December 2005 by ID.
> How
> > can I achieve this? Any help will be highly appreciated.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Milu
> >
> >       [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> >
> > ______________________________________________
> > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> > PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> >
>
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