Try this:
aggregate(value ~ group + format(dates, "%Y.%W"), myframe, FUN = sum)
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Dimitri Liakhovitski
<dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear everybody,
>
> I have the following challenge. I have a data set with 2 subgroups,
> dates (days), and corresponding values (see example code below).
> Within each subgroup: I need to aggregate (sum) the values by week -
> for weeks that start on a Monday (for example, 2008-12-29 was a
> Monday).
> I find it difficult because I have missing dates in my data - so that
> sometimes I don't even have the date for some Mondays. So, I can't
> write a proper loop.
> I want my output to look something like this:
> group dates value
> group.1 2008-12-29 3.0937
> group.1 2009-01-05 3.8833
> group.1 2009-01-12 1.362
> ...
> group.2 2008-12-29 2.250
> group.2 2009-01-05 1.4057
> group.2 2009-01-12 3.4411
> ...
>
> Thanks a lot for your suggestions! The code is below:
> Dimitri
>
> ### Creating example data set:
> mydates<-rep(seq(as.Date("2008-12-29"), length = 43, by = "day"),2)
> myfactor<-c(rep("group.1",43),rep("group.2",43))
> set.seed(123)
> myvalues<-runif(86,0,1)
> myframe<-data.frame(dates=mydates,group=myfactor,value=myvalues)
> (myframe)
> dim(myframe)
>
> ## Removing same rows (dates) unsystematically:
> set.seed(123)
> removed.group1<-sample(1:43,size=11,replace=F)
> set.seed(456)
> removed.group2<-sample(44:86,size=11,replace=F)
> to.remove<-c(removed.group1,removed.group2);length(to.remove)
> to.remove<-to.remove[order(to.remove)]
> myframe<-myframe[-to.remove,]
> (myframe)
>
>
>
> --
> Dimitri Liakhovitski
> Ninah Consulting
> www.ninah.com
>
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