Hi all, I would like to flag each record in the data according to certain conditions as specified below.
For example, If "Close_date" in *dat* is between ("Open" & "Close") or ("Open1" & "Close1") or ("Open2" & "Close2") in *oc, *flag the records as "Valid", otherwise "Invalid" I would like to use sapply family functions if possible due to the nature of large data set. ini <- as.Date("2010/1/1", "%Y/%m/%d") # Generate arbitrary data frame consisting of date values oc <- data.frame(Open = seq(ini, ini + 5, 1), Close = seq(ini + 365, ini + 365 + 5, 1), Open1 = seq(ini + 365*2, ini + 365*2 + 5, 1), Close1 = seq(ini + 365*3, ini + 365*3 + 5, 1), Open2 = seq(ini + 365*4, ini + 365*4 + 5, 1), Close2 = seq(ini + 365*5, ini + 365*5 + 5, 1)) rownames(oc) <- c("AAA", "AA", "A", "BBB", "BB", "B") oc Open Close Open1 Close1 Open2 Close2 AAA 2010-01-01 2011-01-01 2012-01-01 2012-12-31 2013-12-31 2014-12-31 AA 2010-01-02 2011-01-02 2012-01-02 2013-01-01 2014-01-01 2015-01-01 A 2010-01-03 2011-01-03 2012-01-03 2013-01-02 2014-01-02 2015-01-02 BBB 2010-01-04 2011-01-04 2012-01-04 2013-01-03 2014-01-03 2015-01-03 BB 2010-01-05 2011-01-05 2012-01-05 2013-01-04 2014-01-04 2015-01-04 B 2010-01-06 2011-01-06 2012-01-06 2013-01-05 2014-01-05 2015-01-05 dat <- data.frame(Class = c("AAA", "C", "CC", "BB", "B", "A"), Close_date = c(ini, ini, ini, ini+109, ini+39, ini+24), stringsAsFactors = FALSE) dat Class Close_date 1 AAA 2010-01-01 2 A 2010-01-01 3 CC 2010-01-01 4 BB 2010-04-20 5 B 2010-02-09 6 A 2010-01-25 Desired result is: Class Close_date Flag 1 AAA 2010-01-01 Valid 2 A 2010-01-01 Invalid 3 CC 2010-01-01 Valid 4 BB 2010-04-20 Valid 5 B 2010-02-09 Valid 6 A 2010-01-25 Valid The following seems to be a failure.. for (i in length(ind)) { dat[["Flag"]] <- sapply(dat$Close_date, function(x) ifelse((x >= oc[ind[i], 1] & x < oc[ind[i], 2]) | (x >= oc[ind[i], 3] & x < oc[ind[i], 4]) | (x >= oc[ind[i], 5] & x < oc[ind[i], 6]) | (x >= oc[ind[i], 7] & x < oc[ind[i], 8]), "Valid", "Invalid")) } Any resolution in this would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. -- Steven [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.