I should probably have added that you should have a look at R's time series task view:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/TimeSeries.html including anything there on irregular times series (e.g. irts() from tseries package) and imputation. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Ateljevich, Eli@DWR <eli.ateljev...@water.ca.gov> wrote: > I have several years of univariate wind speed data to which I would like to > apply singular spectrum analysis. The data are sampled every 15min and a year > is a fundamental periodicity, which suggests L=35,040 values. > > > I would like to fill the gaps. The missing values are scattered at low > density throughout the series. I doubt there is a block of even one month > that doesn't have at least a couple pieces of missing data, but I'd surprised > to learn the total number are prohibitive. > > > The filling routines in Rssa like igapfill assume a shaped ssa object, so it > seems I need to run ssa successfully first before I can fill. When I try this > with L=35,040 or anything above about 2,000 I get an error message > Nothing to decompose: the given field shape is empty > and warnings like > Some field elements were not covered by shaped window. 42646 elements will be > ommited. > > > This is frustrating, because if I manually fill missing data with the series > mean, which I understand as being the first step of igapfill, the > decomposition succeeds with L=35040. The operation seems efficient and the > spectral components look as expected. But since I have manually created a > series with no missing data, this doesn't help me with gap filling. > > > To concoct a shaped ssa object with the original missing pattern, I invoked > force.decompose=FALSE. At that point I can bring my task to completion, but I > don't know what I'm doing. The only examples I see in the docs are not > explained and are in 2D. > > > Can someone familiar with this kind of use case explain what the purpose of > force.decompose and explain the best practice given my missing data > situation? Are there consequences to my workaround? Thanks. > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@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@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.
