Re: [R] stats on transitions from one state to another

2012-02-21 Thread Murali.Menon
David: Brilliant! Thanks very much.

As Berend pointed out, I was not precise in the query, sorry. Please note in 
the example that we have a run of three state 2 after 0, and later another run 
of two state 2 after 0.

0 2 2 2  0 0 2 2

Whenever the state moves from 0 to 2, I want to compute the mean of the run of 
values in state 2. 

I tried to modify David's example by doing the 'interaction' on states and runs:

y - rle(sss[,State])
yy - cbind(y$lengths, y$values, c(NA, y$values[-length(y$values)]))
colnames(yy) - c(RunLength,State,PrevState)

tapply(yy[,RunLength], INDEX=interaction(yy[,PrevState], yy[,State]), c)

This gives me the list of runs for each transition-pair.

Now I need to match these lists of runs against the corresponding rows in sss 
of values V1, V2, and compute stats on them.

Is there an easier way?

Thanks,

Murali

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From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsem...@comcast.net] 
Sent: 20 February 2012 15:31
To: Menon Murali
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] stats on transitions from one state to another


On Feb 20, 2012, at 10:11 AM, murali.me...@avivainvestors.com wrote:

 Folks,

 I'm trying to get stats from a matrix for each transition from one  
 state to another.

 I have a matrix x as below.

 structure(c(0, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 0,
 0, 2, 2, 0.21, -0.57, -0.59, 0.16, -1.62, 0.18, -0.81, -0.19,
 -0.76, 0.74, -1.51, 2.79, 0.41, 1.63, -0.86, -0.81, 0.39, -1.38,
 0.06, 0.84, 0.51, -1, -1.29, 2.15, 0.39, 0.78, 0.85, 1.18, 1.66,
 0.9, -0.94, -1.29, -0.23, -0.92, -0.21, 1.02, -0.77, -0.68, -0.33,
 0.04), .Dim = c(20L, 3L), .Dimnames = list(NULL, c(State, V1,
 V2)))

 Is it possible to get, say, mean values of each variable in state 1  
 when the previous state was 0, in state 2 when the previous state  
 was 0, and so on with all available transitions between states 0, 1,  
 2?

 In the above case, mean of V1 in state 2 when previous state was 0  
 would be

 mean(c(-0.57, -0.59, 0.16, 0.06, 0.84)) = -0.02

 while the mean of V1 in state 0 when previous state was 2 would be:

 mean(c(1.62, 0.18, -0.81)) = 0.33

 If I try something like

 by(x[, 2:3], x[, 1], FUN = colMeans)

 I get the means for each state. I'm not sure how to get the split by  
 transition?

Add an extra column of previous states: and tabulate:

  sss -cbind(sss,  c(NA, sss[,State][-nrow(sss)]) )

  table(sss[,State], sss[,4])

 0 1 2
   0 3 1 1
   1 1 5 1
   2 2 1 4

The requested means for V1 by transition types:
  tapply(sss[,V1], INDEX=interaction(sss[,State], sss[,4]), mean)
0.01.02.00.11.12.10.21.22.2
-0.670 -0.190 -0.255  0.390 -0.640  2.790 -1.620  1.630  0.205

The counts on which those means are based:
  tapply(sss[,V1], INDEX=interaction(sss[,State], sss[,4]), length)
0.0 1.0 2.0 0.1 1.1 2.1 0.2 1.2 2.2
   3   1   2   1   5   1   1   1   4

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[R] stats on transitions from one state to another

2012-02-20 Thread Murali.Menon
Folks,

I'm trying to get stats from a matrix for each transition from one state to 
another.

I have a matrix x as below.

structure(c(0, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 0, 
0, 2, 2, 0.21, -0.57, -0.59, 0.16, -1.62, 0.18, -0.81, -0.19, 
-0.76, 0.74, -1.51, 2.79, 0.41, 1.63, -0.86, -0.81, 0.39, -1.38, 
0.06, 0.84, 0.51, -1, -1.29, 2.15, 0.39, 0.78, 0.85, 1.18, 1.66, 
0.9, -0.94, -1.29, -0.23, -0.92, -0.21, 1.02, -0.77, -0.68, -0.33, 
0.04), .Dim = c(20L, 3L), .Dimnames = list(NULL, c(State, V1, 
V2)))

Is it possible to get, say, mean values of each variable in state 1 when the 
previous state was 0, in state 2 when the previous state was 0, and so on with 
all available transitions between states 0, 1, 2?

In the above case, mean of V1 in state 2 when previous state was 0 would be 

mean(c(-0.57, -0.59, 0.16, 0.06, 0.84)) = -0.02

while the mean of V1 in state 0 when previous state was 2 would be:

mean(c(1.62, 0.18, -0.81)) = 0.33

If I try something like

by(x[, 2:3], x[, 1], FUN = colMeans)

I get the means for each state. I'm not sure how to get the split by transition?

Thanks,

Murali

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Re: [R] choosing best 'match' for given factor

2011-04-01 Thread Murali.Menon
Interesting variety of solutions! Thanks very much.

Murali

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From: Henrique Dallazuanna [mailto:www...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 31 March 2011 18:26
To: Menon Murali
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] choosing best 'match' for given factor

Try this:

bestMatch - function(search, match) {
colnames(match)[pmax(apply(match[,search], 2, which.max) - 1, 1)]
}


On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:46 AM,  murali.me...@avivainvestors.com wrote:
 Folks,

 I have a 'matching' matrix between variables A, X, L, O:

 a - structure(c(1, 0.41, 0.58, 0.75, 0.41, 1, 0.6, 0.86, 0.58,
 0.6, 1, 0.83, 0.75, 0.86, 0.83, 1), .Dim = c(4L, 4L), .Dimnames = list(
    c(A, X, L, O), c(A, X, L, O)))

 a
      A     X     L     O
 A  1.00  0.41  0.58  0.75
 X  0.41  1.00  0.60  0.86
 L  0.58  0.75  1.00  0.83
 O  0.60  0.86  0.83  1.00

 And I have a search vector of variables

 v - c(X, O)

 I want to write a function bestMatch(searchvector, matchMat) such that for 
 each variable in searchvector, I get the variable that it has the highest 
 match to - but searching only among variables to the left of it in the 
 'matching' matrix, and not matching with any variable in searchvector itself.

 So in the above example, although X has the highest match (0.86) with O, 
 I can't choose O as it's to the right of X (and also because O is in the 
 searchvector v already); I'll have to choose A.

 For O, I will choose L, the variable it's best matched with - as it can't 
 match X already in the search vector.

 My function bestMatch(v, a) will then return c(A, L)

 My matrix a is quite large, and I have a long list of search vectors v, so I 
 need an efficient method.

 I wrote this:

 bestMatch - function(searchvector,  matchMat) {
        sapply(searchvector, function(cc) {
                             y - matchMat[!(rownames(matchMat) %in% 
 searchvector)  (index(rownames(matchMat))  match(cc, rownames(matchMat))), 
 cc, drop = FALSE];
                             rownames(y)[which.max(y)]
        })
 }

 Any advice?

 Thanks,

 Murali

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[R] choosing best 'match' for given factor

2011-03-31 Thread Murali.Menon
Folks,

I have a 'matching' matrix between variables A, X, L, O:

 a - structure(c(1, 0.41, 0.58, 0.75, 0.41, 1, 0.6, 0.86, 0.58, 
0.6, 1, 0.83, 0.75, 0.86, 0.83, 1), .Dim = c(4L, 4L), .Dimnames = list(
c(A, X, L, O), c(A, X, L, O)))

 a
  A X L O
A  1.00  0.41  0.58  0.75
X  0.41  1.00  0.60  0.86
L  0.58  0.75  1.00  0.83
O  0.60  0.86  0.83  1.00

And I have a search vector of variables

 v - c(X, O)

I want to write a function bestMatch(searchvector, matchMat) such that for each 
variable in searchvector, I get the variable that it has the highest match to - 
but searching only among variables to the left of it in the 'matching' matrix, 
and not matching with any variable in searchvector itself.

So in the above example, although X has the highest match (0.86) with O, I 
can't choose O as it's to the right of X (and also because O is in the 
searchvector v already); I'll have to choose A.

For O, I will choose L, the variable it's best matched with - as it can't 
match X already in the search vector.

My function bestMatch(v, a) will then return c(A, L)

My matrix a is quite large, and I have a long list of search vectors v, so I 
need an efficient method.

I wrote this:

bestMatch - function(searchvector,  matchMat) {
sapply(searchvector, function(cc) {
 y - matchMat[!(rownames(matchMat) %in% 
searchvector)  (index(rownames(matchMat))  match(cc, rownames(matchMat))), 
cc, drop = FALSE];
 rownames(y)[which.max(y)]
})   
}

Any advice?

Thanks,

Murali

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[R] questions on unstack()

2010-10-18 Thread Murali.Menon
Folks,

I have the following dataframe:

 x - structure(list(name = c(EU B, EU B, EU B, EU B, EU B, 
EU B, AU A, AU A, AU A, AU A, AU A, AU A), date = c(2010-10-11, 
2010-10-12, 2010-10-13, 2010-10-14, 2010-10-15, 2010-10-18, 
2010-10-11, 2010-10-12, 2010-10-13, 2010-10-14, 2010-10-15, 
2010-10-18), Jem = c(1.3924, 1.3888, 1.3867, 1.3949, 1.4054, 
1.3992, 0.9864, 0.9859, 0.9842, 0.9919, 0.9925, 0.9901), Bim = c(1.3888, 
1.3867, 1.3949, 1.4054, 1.3977, 1.3917, 0.9859, 0.9842, 0.9919, 
0.9925, 0.9907, 0.9881)), .Names = c(name, date, Jem, Bim
), row.names = c(1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 8L, 9L, 10L, 11L, 12L, 13L, 
16L), na.action = structure(c(6L, 7L, 14L, 15L), .Names = c(6, 
7, 14, 15), class = omit), class = data.frame)

 x
   name   dateJemBim
1  EU B 2010-10-11 1.3924 1.3888
2  EU B 2010-10-12 1.3888 1.3867
3  EU B 2010-10-13 1.3867 1.3949
4  EU B 2010-10-14 1.3949 1.4054
5  EU B 2010-10-15 1.4054 1.3977
8  EU B 2010-10-18 1.3992 1.3917
9  AU A 2010-10-11 0.9864 0.9859
10 AU A 2010-10-12 0.9859 0.9842
11 AU A 2010-10-13 0.9842 0.9919
12 AU A 2010-10-14 0.9919 0.9925
13 AU A 2010-10-15 0.9925 0.9907
16 AU A 2010-10-18 0.9901 0.9881

I'm trying to collapse the frame so that I get columns of names:

 unstack(x, Jem ~ name)
AU.A   EU.B
1 0.9864 1.3924
2 0.9859 1.3888
3 0.9842 1.3867
4 0.9919 1.3949
5 0.9925 1.4054
6 0.9901 1.3992

Three questions:

1. The column names are converted from EU B to EU.B - how to preserve the 
original names?

2. The column names are sorted alphabetically - how to preserve the original 
order? I tried

 unstack(x, terms(Jem ~ name, keep.order = TRUE))

but it doesn't really do anything.

3. If I declare a variable wantedName - 'Jem', how can I use it to perform the 
unstack:

 unstack(x, `wantedName` ~ name)
Error in tapply(eval(form[[2L]], x), eval(form[[3L]], x), as.vector) : 
  arguments must have same length


Thanks, 
Murali

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[R] graphics layout

2010-10-12 Thread Murali.Menon
Folks,

I'm battling the layout() functionality in graphics, and getting a bit mixed 
up. I'd like to create subscreens like so:

 _ _
| | |
|1|2|
|_| |
| | |
|3|4|
|_|_|
| |6|
|5|7|
|_|8|


Note that subscreens 1:5 are the same size, and 6,7,8 are the same width as, 
say, 1, but of one-third the height.

How to achieve this? 

Thanks,

Murali

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Re: [R] graphics layout

2010-10-12 Thread Murali.Menon
Hiya,

Thanks for this. It's the height parameters that baffle me. Why are they 1, 1, 
1/3, 1/3, 1/3?
Which subscreens do these heights correspond to?

I did it like this: 

nf - layout(cbind(c(1,1,1,3,3,3,5,5,5),c(2,2,2,4,4,4,6,7,8)))

mainly because I'm not clear about how the heights work.

Thanks,
Murali

-Original Message-
From: Eik Vettorazzi [mailto:e.vettora...@uke.uni-hamburg.de] 
Sent: 12 October 2010 13:43
To: Menon Murali
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] graphics layout

Hi Murali
try

nf - layout(matrix(c(1:5,6,5,7,5,8), ncol=2, byrow=TRUE),
heights=c(1,1,rep(1/3,3)),respect=TRUE)
layout.show(nf)

hth.

Am 12.10.2010 14:19, schrieb murali.me...@avivainvestors.com:
 Folks,
 
 I'm battling the layout() functionality in graphics, and getting a bit mixed 
 up. I'd like to create subscreens like so:
 
  _ _
 | | |
 |1|2|
 |_| |
 | | |
 |3|4|
 |_|_|
 | |6|
 |5|7|
 |_|8|
 
 
 Note that subscreens 1:5 are the same size, and 6,7,8 are the same width as, 
 say, 1, but of one-third the height.
 
 How to achieve this? 
 
 Thanks,
 
 Murali
 
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[R] getting column names of row-by-row sorted matrix

2010-09-01 Thread Murali.Menon
Hi folks,

I want to sort a matrix row-by-row and create a new matrix that contains the 
corresponding colnames of the original matrix.

E.g.

 set.seed(123)
 a - matrix(rnorm(20), ncol=4); colnames(a) - c(A,B,C,D)
 a
   A  B  C  D
[1,] -0.56047565  1.7150650  1.2240818  1.7869131
[2,] -0.23017749  0.4609162  0.3598138  0.4978505
[3,]  1.55870831 -1.2650612  0.4007715 -1.9666172
[4,]  0.07050839 -0.6868529  0.1106827  0.7013559
[5,]  0.12928774 -0.4456620 -0.5558411 -0.4727914

I want to obtain a matrix that looks like this

A C B D
A C B D
D B C A
B A C D
C D B A

How best to achieve this? I was able to do it for the max and min of each row 
by which.min, which.max, but for the entire thing, I'm stymied.

Thanks,

Murali

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[R] simultaneous estimation

2010-08-31 Thread Murali.Menon
Hi folks,

Not sure what this sort of estimation is called. I have a 2-column time-series 
x(i,t) [with (i=1,2; t=1,...T)], and I want to do the following 'simultaneous' 
regressions:

x(1,t) = (d - 1)(x(1, t-1) - mu(1))
x(2,t) = (d - 1)(x(2, t-1) - mu(2))

And I want to determine the coefficients d, mu(1), mu(2). 

Note that the d should be the same for both estimations, whereas the 
coefficients mu will have two values mu(1), mu(2), one for each estimation.

Is this possible to do in R?

What would be the corresponding syntax in, say, lm?

Thanks,

Murali

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Re: [R] simultaneous estimation

2010-08-31 Thread Murali.Menon
Hi Duncan,

Thanks for your response.

Indeed, independent normal errors were what I had in mind. As for variances, if 
I assume they are the same, would a 'pooled model' apply in this case? Is that 
equivalent to your suggestion of concatenating x(1,t) and x(2,t)?

Cheers,
Murali 

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From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 31 August 2010 12:31
To: Menon Murali
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] simultaneous estimation

On 31/08/2010 6:58 AM, murali.me...@avivainvestors.com wrote:
 Hi folks,
 
 Not sure what this sort of estimation is called. I have a 2-column 
 time-series x(i,t) [with (i=1,2; t=1,...T)], and I want to do the following 
 'simultaneous' regressions:
 
 x(1,t) = (d - 1)(x(1, t-1) - mu(1))
 x(2,t) = (d - 1)(x(2, t-1) - mu(2))
 
 And I want to determine the coefficients d, mu(1), mu(2). 
 
 Note that the d should be the same for both estimations, whereas the 
 coefficients mu will have two values mu(1), mu(2), one for each estimation.
 
 Is this possible to do in R?
 
 What would be the corresponding syntax in, say, lm?

Your specification is not complete: you haven't said what the errors will be, 
or how x(1,1) and x(2,1) are determined.  I assume you mean independent normal 
errors, but are you willing to assume the variance is the same in both series?  
If so, then your model is almost equivalent to a linear model with concatenated 
x(1,t) and x(2,t) values.  (This would be the partial likelihood version of 
the model, where you don't try to fit x(i, 1), but you fit the rest of the 
values conditional on earlier
ones.)

If you want the full likelihood or you want separate variances for the two 
series, you probably need to write out the likelihood explicitly and maximize 
it.

Duncan Murdoch

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Re: [R] simultaneous estimation

2010-08-31 Thread Murali.Menon
Bert,

I expect you are correct, burrito notwithstanding (wasn't Taco Bell, was it? 
:-) 

The full model adds differences and lags, and incorporates non-zero covariances 
in the innovations. I only simplified to get an idea of how to implement in R.
 
For anyone interested, I'm looking at the Balvers and Wu (2006): Momentum and 
Mean Reversion across National Equity Markets, Journal of Empirical Finance 
13, 24-48.
 
Their model is as follows, with x(i, t) = log of stock index value of country i 
at time t:
 
x(i, t) = (1 - d(i)) * mu(i) + d(i) * x(i, t - 1) + Sum[rho(i, j) * (x(i, t - 
j) - x(t - j - 1))] + eps(i, t)
 
where Sum is across J periods, the d(i), mu(i) and rho(i, j) are all specific 
to each country (i), and the error terms eps(i) have some covariance structure.
 
You can see that the mu(i) term is supposed to capture the drift of the random 
walk component of stock index movement, the rho(i) is a coefficient for the 
momentum component, and the d(i) represents long temporary swings in the index.
 
But as there's now a large number of parameters to estimate, a simplifying 
assumption is that d and rho are common to all the countries, while the mu is 
specific.
 
Thanks,
 
Murali



From: Bert Gunter [mailto:gunter.ber...@gene.com] 
Sent: 31 August 2010 17:12
To: Duncan Murdoch
Cc: David Winsemius; r-help@r-project.org; Menon Murali
Subject: Re: [R] simultaneous estimation


I would hazard the guess that this would be better estimated as a multivariate 
time series (e.g. AR1) in which the covariance between the two innovation 
components was NOT assumed to be 0 (nor were their variances assumed to be the 
same).  The R time series task view lists packages to do this, but ?ar might be 
a place to start.

I would happily defer to expert opinion on this matter, however. I just always 
get this funny rumbling in my stomach whenever anyone proposes simple lagged 
regression models for time series. Maybe it's the burrito, though...

-- Bert


On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com 
wrote:


On 31/08/2010 11:00 AM, David Winsemius wrote:


On Aug 31, 2010, at 10:35 AM, murali.me...@avivainvestors.com 
murali.me...@avivainvestors.com   wrote:

 Hi Duncan,

 Thanks for your response.

 Indeed, independent normal errors were what I had in mind. As 
for   variances, if I assume they are the same, would a 'pooled model'   
apply in this case? Is that equivalent to your suggestion of   concatenating 
x(1,t) and x(2,t)?


Wouldn't this be equivalent to a segmented regression analysis 
that  would estimate the slopes in the two periods as mu(1) and mu(2), throw- 
away any level shift estimate at the join-point,  and which then  estimated the 
residual one-lag autocorrelation (again omitting the  join point) and assigned 
that value to d?

 



That is a different model.  In the given situation, successive 
observations are correlated, so if x(1, t) had a large residual above the line, 
x(1, t+1) would be expected to have a large residual as well, and as long as 
|d-1| is less than 1, the given model would have zero slope in the long run. 


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[R] semiparametric fractional autoregressive model

2010-08-17 Thread Murali.Menon
folks,
 
does anyone know if the SEMIFAR model has been implemented in R? i see that 
there's a S-FinMetrics function SEMIFAR() that does the job, but I have no 
access to that software. essentially, this semiparametric fractional 
autoregressive model introduces a deterministic trend to the FARIMA(p,d,0) 
model (which, as i understand it, takes care of the random trend and short and 
long memory).
 
if not, are there any suggestions for how to estimate the model:
 
phi(L) (1 - L)^d [y(t)(1 - L) - g(t/T)] = epsilon(t)
 
for t = 1, , T, and where -0.5  d  0.5, phi(L) is the lag polynomial, and 
g() is a smooth trend function on [0, 1].
 
what would be a good nonparametric kernel estimator of g()? 
 
i'm new at this so any pointers would be helpful.
 
thanks,
 
murali

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[R] converting a time to nearest half-hour

2010-07-23 Thread Murali.Menon
Hi folks,

I've got a POSIXct datum as follows:

 Sys.time()
[1] 2010-07-23 11:29:59 BST

I want to convert this to the nearest half-hour, i.e., to 2010-07-23 11:30:00 
BST

(If the time were 11:59:ss, I want to convert to 12:00:00).

How to achieve this? 

Thanks,

Murali
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Re: [R] converting a time to nearest half-hour

2010-07-23 Thread Murali.Menon
David, Stephen,
You're right - it's the time zone conventions that threw me as well. I tried 
those round() operations earlier, but inevitably ended up being either an hour 
behind. Even when I specified my time zone, it didn't make any difference. So 
there's something else that I'm missing. I'll take a look at your various 
approaches, and get back to you.
Cheers,
Murali

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Subject: Re: [R] converting a time to nearest half-hour


On Jul 23, 2010, at 12:04 PM, stephen sefick wrote:

 If you have a zoo series this should work.  If it doesn't then please 
 tell me because I think it works.

 snap2min - function(zoo, min=00:15:00){
 min15 - times(min)
 a - aggregate(zoo, trunc(time(zoo), min15), function(x) mean(x,
 na.rm=TRUE))
 }

This works for producing 10 half-hour intervals of EDT times:

as.POSIXct(60*30*( round( as.numeric( Sys.time()+
   60*30*(1:10))/  # the sequence creation
   (60*30))) -   # divide prior to rounding
   5*60*60,# the TZ offset
   origin=1970-01-01 )
  [1] 2010-07-23 12:30:00 EDT 2010-07-23 13:00:00 EDT
  [3] 2010-07-23 13:30:00 EDT 2010-07-23 14:00:00 EDT
  [5] 2010-07-23 14:30:00 EDT 2010-07-23 15:00:00 EDT
  [7] 2010-07-23 15:30:00 EDT 2010-07-23 16:00:00 EDT
  [9] 2010-07-23 16:30:00 EDT 2010-07-23 17:00:00 EDT


 hth

 Stephen Sefick

 On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:00 AM, David Winsemius 
 dwinsem...@comcast.net wrote:

 On Jul 23, 2010, at 11:35 AM, David Winsemius wrote:


 On Jul 23, 2010, at 11:20 AM, murali.me...@avivainvestors.com 
 murali.me...@avivainvestors.com wrote:

 Hi folks,

 I've got a POSIXct datum as follows:

 Sys.time()

 [1] 2010-07-23 11:29:59 BST

 I want to convert this to the nearest half-hour, i.e., to
 2010-07-23
 11:30:00 BST

 (If the time were 11:59:ss, I want to convert to 12:00:00).

 How to achieve this?

 Couldn't you just coerce to numeric, divide by 60(sec)*30(half-hour 
 minutes), round to integer, multiply by 60*30,  coerce to POSIXct?

 When I tried my method I see that one also needs to add or subtract 
 the proper number of seconds from Universal Time to get the output 
 formatting correct. (Probably demonstrates that I do not have the 
 proper understanding of the right place to employ a TZ 
 specification.).

 David Winsemius, MD
 West Hartford, CT

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[R] min and max operations on matrix

2010-01-20 Thread Murali.MENON
Folks,

I've got a matrix x as follows:
 
 x - matrix(c(1,2,3,5,3,4,3,2,1), ncol = 3, byrow = TRUE)
 x
 [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]123
[2,]534
[3,]321


In each row of x, I want to replace the minimum value by -1, the maximum
value by +1 and all other values by 0.

So in the above case I want to end up as follows:

 [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]   -101
[2,]1   -10
[3,]10   -1

I tried the following, which seems to work:

 t(apply(x, 1, function(y) {z - numeric(NROW(y)); z[which.min(y)] -
-1; z[which.max(y)]- 1; z})) 

Is there a neater way to do this?

Thanks,

Murali

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[R] differing behaviour between xts (0.6-7) and zoo (1.5-8)

2009-09-25 Thread Murali.MENON
Folks,
 
I have some weekly dataseries that I convert to monthly xts (with
yearmon indices), and obtain the two following extracts:
 
 str(sig)
An 'xts' object from Apr 1998 to Sep 1998 containing:
  Data: num [1:6, 1] 0.0083 0.2799 -0.2524 -0.0119 0.18 ...
 - attr(*, dimnames)=List of 2
  ..$ : NULL
  ..$ : chr e1
  Indexed by objects of class: [yearmon] TZ: GMT
  xts Attributes:  
 NULL

 str(ret)
An 'xts' object from Mar 1998 to Aug 1998 containing:
  Data: num [1:6, 1] -0.007829 0.006452 -0.000276 -0.000644 0.002572 ...
 - attr(*, dimnames)=List of 2
  ..$ : NULL
  ..$ : chr twi.Close
  Indexed by objects of class: [yearmon] TZ: GMT
  xts Attributes:  
 NULL
 
I understand that mathematical objects on xts objects will be performed
only on the datapoints with common indices, in this case Apr 1998 to Aug
1998. So I do:
 
 sig * ret
Data:
numeric(0)
 
Index:
NULL

Which doesn't give me what I expect. However, if I do:
 
 as.zoo(sig) * as.zoo(ret)
e1
Apr 1998  5.351189e-05
May 1998 -7.716467e-05
Jun 1998  1.624531e-04
Jul 1998 -3.055679e-05
Aug 1998  4.122321e-04

Which is as I expect.

I took a look at the structure of the two objects:

 dput(sig)
structure(c(0.00829354917358671, 0.279914830605598, -0.252440486192738, 
-0.0118822201758384, 0.179972233000564, -0.209066714293924), index =
c(891388800, 
893980800, 896659200, 899251200, 901929600, 904608000), .Dim = c(6L, 
1L), .Dimnames = list(NULL, e1), class = c(xts, zoo), .indexTZ =
structure(GMT, .Names = TZ), .indexCLASS = yearmon)

 dput(ret)
structure(c(-0.00782945094736132, 0.00645222996118644,
-0.000275671952124412, 
-0.000643530245146628, 0.00257163991836062, 0.00229053194651918
), index = c(890784000, 893808000, 896227200, 898646400, 901670400, 
904089600), .Dim = c(6L, 1L), .Dimnames = list(NULL, twi.Close),
.indexCLASS = yearmon, .indexTZ = structure(GMT, .Names = TZ),
class = c(xts, 
zoo))

So clearly the internal values of the supposedly overlapping parts of
the indices are different, although they are both 'yearmon' and seem to
represent the same months.

If I do

 dput(as.zoo(ret))
structure(c(-0.00782945094736132, 0.00645222996118644,
-0.000275671952124412, 
-0.000643530245146628, 0.00257163991836062, 0.00229053194651918
), .Dim = c(6L, 1L), .Dimnames = list(NULL, twi.Close), index =
structure(c(1998.167, 
1998.25, 1998.333, 1998.417, 1998.5, 1998.583
), class = yearmon), class = zoo)

 dput(as.zoo(sig))
structure(c(0.00829354917358671, 0.279914830605598, -0.252440486192738, 
-0.0118822201758384, 0.179972233000564, -0.209066714293924), .Dim =
c(6L, 
1L), .Dimnames = list(NULL, e1), index = structure(c(1998.25, 
1998.333, 1998.417, 1998.5, 1998.583, 
1998.667), class = yearmon), class = zoo)

Now the indices have the expected overlaps.

I'm not sure if this is a bug in xts? 

 sessionInfo()
R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24) 
i386-pc-mingw32 

locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
Kingdom.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
Kingdom.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics  grDevices datasets  tcltk utils methods
base 

other attached packages:
[1] xts_0.6-7   zoo_1.5-8   svSocket_0.9-43 svMisc_0.9-48
TinnR_1.0.3 R2HTML_1.59-1   Hmisc_3.6-1 rcom_2.2-1
rscproxy_1.3-1 

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] cluster_1.12.0  grid_2.9.2  lattice_0.17-25 tools_2.9.2

Please advise.

Thanks,

Murali

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[R] convert xts vector into matrix

2009-07-02 Thread Murali.MENON
hi folks,
 
if i have an xts object as follows:
 
library(xts)
 dd - as.POSIXct(strptime(c(2009-06-01 08:00:00, 2009-06-01
08:30:00,2009-06-01 09:00:00,2009-06-02 08:00:00, 2009-06-03
08:00:00, 2009-06-03 08:30:00),%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S))
 a - xts(1:6,dd)
 a
 
 

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Re: [R] Replace zeroes in vector with nearest non-zero value

2009-06-19 Thread Murali.MENON
Jim, Gabor, William,
Thanks very much. Works a treat.
Cheers,
Murali


-Original Message-
From: William Dunlap [mailto:wdun...@tibco.com] 
Sent: 18 June 2009 18:27
To: MENON Murali; r-help@r-project.org
Subject: RE: [R] Replace zeroes in vector with nearest non-zero value

approx() almost does what you want, but you have to patch up its output
to account for a possible initial run of 0's in the
input:
 x - c(0, -1, -1, -1, 0, 0, 1, -1, 1, 0) y - 
 approx(seq_along(x)[x!=0], x[x!=0], xout=seq_along(x),
method=const, f=0, rule=2)$y
 y
 [1] -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1  1 -1  1  1

Doing tricks with cumsum will do it more directly:

f-function(x){
 i-cumsum(x!=0) # indices to last non-zero value in x
 c(x[i==0], x[x!=0][i]) # x[i==0] is initial run of 0's, x[x!=0][i]
gets the rest }
 rbind(x,f(x))
  [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10]
x0   -1   -1   -1001   -11 0
 0   -1   -1   -1   -1   -11   -11 1

If there are NA's in x you will have to add an NA test to the x!=0 and
x==0 tests or replace the NA's by 0's before doing this.

Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software Inc - Spotfire Division
wdunlap tibco.com  

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 murali.me...@fortisinvestments.com
 Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:48 AM
 To: r-help@r-project.org
 Subject: [R] Replace zeroes in vector with nearest non-zero value
 
 Folks,
  
 If I have a vector such as the following:
  
 x - c(0, -1, -1, -1, 0, 0, 1, -1, 1, 0)
  
 and I want to replace the zeroes by the nearest non-zero number to the

 left, is there a more elegant way to do this than the following loop?
  
 y - x
 for (i in 2 : length(x))
 {
 if (y[i] == 0) {
 y[i] - y[i - 1]
 }
 }
  
  y
 [1]  0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1  1 -1  1  1
  
 You can see the first zero is left as is, the next two zeroes become 
 -1, which is the closest non-zero to the left of them, and the last 
 zero becomes 1.
  
 Cheers,
 Murali
 
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[R] Replace zeroes in vector with nearest non-zero value

2009-06-18 Thread Murali.MENON
Folks,
 
If I have a vector such as the following:
 
x - c(0, -1, -1, -1, 0, 0, 1, -1, 1, 0)
 
and I want to replace the zeroes by the nearest non-zero number to the
left, is there a more elegant way to do this than the following loop?
 
y - x
for (i in 2 : length(x))
{
if (y[i] == 0) {
y[i] - y[i - 1]
}
}
 
 y
[1]  0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1  1 -1  1  1
 
You can see the first zero is left as is, the next two zeroes become -1,
which is the closest non-zero to the left of them, and the last zero
becomes 1.
 
Cheers,
Murali

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[R] series at low freq expanded into high freq

2009-04-27 Thread Murali.MENON
Folks,
 
If I have a series mm of, say, monthly observations, and a series dd of
daily dates, what's a good way of expanding mm such that corresponding
to each day in dd within the corresponding month in mm, the values of mm
are repeated?
 
So e.g., if I have mm:
 
mm - c(15, 10, 12, 13, 11)
names(mm)-c(Nov 2008,   Dec 2008,  Jan 2009,   Feb 2009,   Mar
2009)
library(zoo)
mm - zoo(mm, order.by = as.yearmon(names(mm), format=%b %Y))
 
And days:
 
dd - as.Date(c(03/11/2008, 05/11/2008,
04/01/2009,02/02/2009,17/02/2009,13/03/2009,14/03/2009,18/03/
2009, 26/03/2009), format=%d/%m/%Y)
 
I want to be able to create a series that looks like this:
 
03/11/2008   15 
05/11/2008   15 
04/01/2009   12 
02/02/2009   13 
17/02/2009   13 
13/03/2009   11 
14/03/2009   11 
18/03/2009   11 
26/03/2009   11 
 
where because no daily dates in dd are in December, the final series has
no entries for December; there are two entries for November because
there are two dates in dd in November, etc.
 
Thanks,
Murali

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Re: [R] series at low freq expanded into high freq

2009-04-27 Thread Murali.MENON
Hmm, silly of me. I have the solution, after some mucking about with
coercion and so on:

 xx - zoo(mm[as.character(as.yearmon(dd))], order.by = dd)
 xx

2008-11-03 2008-11-05 2009-01-04 2009-02-02 2009-02-17 2009-03-13
2009-03-14 2009-03-18 2009-03-26 
15 15 12 13 13 11
11 11 11

Right. Sorry to waste your time.

Murali

-Original Message-
From: MENON Murali 
Sent: 27 April 2009 11:51
To: 'r-help@r-project.org'
Subject: series at low freq expanded into high freq

Folks,
 
If I have a series mm of, say, monthly observations, and a series dd of
daily dates, what's a good way of expanding mm such that corresponding
to each day in dd within the corresponding month in mm, the values of mm
are repeated?
 
So e.g., if I have mm:
 
mm - c(15, 10, 12, 13, 11)
names(mm)-c(Nov 2008,   Dec 2008,  Jan 2009,   Feb 2009,   Mar
2009)
library(zoo)
mm - zoo(mm, order.by = as.yearmon(names(mm), format=%b %Y))
 
And days:
 
dd - as.Date(c(03/11/2008, 05/11/2008,
04/01/2009,02/02/2009,17/02/2009,13/03/2009,14/03/2009,18/03/
2009, 26/03/2009), format=%d/%m/%Y)
 
I want to be able to create a series that looks like this:
 
03/11/2008   15 
05/11/2008   15 
04/01/2009   12 
02/02/2009   13 
17/02/2009   13 
13/03/2009   11 
14/03/2009   11 
18/03/2009   11 
26/03/2009   11 
 
where because no daily dates in dd are in December, the final series has
no entries for December; there are two entries for November because
there are two dates in dd in November, etc.
 
Thanks,
Murali

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Re: [R] adding matrices with common column names

2009-03-30 Thread Murali.MENON
Benjamin, Dimitris,
Thanks very much. Neat work!
Murali

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Sent: 27 March 2009 13:52
To: MENON Murali; r-help@r-project.org
Subject: RE: [R] adding matrices with common column names

Shucks, Dimitris beat me to it.  And his code is a bit more elegant than
mine.  But since I did the work I may as well post it, right?

This version incorporates a couple of error checks to make sure all your
arguments are matrices with the same number of rows.

add.by.name - function(...){
  args - list(...)
  
  mat.test - sapply(args,is.matrix)
  if(FALSE %in% mat.test) stop(All arguments must be matrices)

  mat.row - unique(sapply(args,nrow))
  if(length(mat.row)1) stop(All matrices must have the same number of
rows)
  
  all.names - unique(as.vector(sapply(args,colnames)))
  
  sum.mat - matrix(0,nrow=mat.row,ncol=length(all.names))
  colnames(sum.mat) - all.names

  for(i in 1:length(args)){
tmp - args[[i]]
sum.mat[,colnames(tmp)] - sum.mat[,colnames(tmp)] + tmp
  }

  return(sum.mat)
}

m1 - matrix(1:20,ncol=4); colnames(m1) - c(a,b,c,d)
m2 - matrix(1:20,ncol=4); colnames(m2) - c(b,c,d,e)
m3 - matrix(1:20,ncol=4); colnames(m3) - c(a,b,d,e)

add.by.name(m1,m2,m3)



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On Behalf Of murali.me...@fortisinvestments.com
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 9:25 AM
To: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: [R] adding matrices with common column names

folks,
 
if i have three matrices, a, b, cc with some colnames in common, and i
want to create a matrix which consists of the common columns added up,
and the other columns tacked on, what's a good way to do it? i've got
the following roundabout code for two matrices, but if the number of
matrices increases, then i'm a bit stymied.
 
 a - matrix(1:20,ncol=4); colnames(a) - c(a,b,c,d) b - 
 matrix(1:20,ncol=4); colnames(b) - c(b,c,d, e)
 cbind(a[,!(colnames(a) %in% colnames(b)), drop = FALSE],
a[,intersect(colnames(a),colnames(b))] +
b[,intersect(colnames(a),colnames(b)), drop = FALSE],
b[,!(colnames(b) %in% colnames(a)), drop = FALSE])
 
 a  b  c  d  e
[1,] 1  7 17 27 16
[2,] 2  9 19 29 17
[3,] 3 11 21 31 18
[4,] 4 13 23 33 19
[5,] 5 15 25 35 20
 
now, what if i had a matrix cc? i want to perform the above operation on
all three matrices a, b, cc.
 
 cc - matrix(1:10,ncol=2); colnames(cc) - c(e,f)

i need to end up with:

 a  b  c  d  e  f
[1,] 1  7 17 27 17  6
[2,] 2  9 19 29 19  7
[3,] 3 11 21 31 21  8
[4,] 4 13 23 33 23  9
[5,] 5 15 25 35 25 10

and, in general, with multiple matrices with intersecting colnames?

thanks,

murali

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[R] adding matrices with common column names

2009-03-27 Thread Murali.MENON
folks,
 
if i have three matrices, a, b, cc with some colnames in common, and i
want to create a matrix which consists of the common columns added up,
and the other columns tacked on, what's a good way to do it? i've got
the following roundabout code for two matrices, but if the number of
matrices increases, then i'm a bit stymied.
 
 a - matrix(1:20,ncol=4); colnames(a) - c(a,b,c,d) b - 
 matrix(1:20,ncol=4); colnames(b) - c(b,c,d, e)
 cbind(a[,!(colnames(a) %in% colnames(b)), drop = FALSE],
a[,intersect(colnames(a),colnames(b))] +
b[,intersect(colnames(a),colnames(b)), drop = FALSE],
b[,!(colnames(b) %in% colnames(a)), drop = FALSE])
 
 a  b  c  d  e
[1,] 1  7 17 27 16
[2,] 2  9 19 29 17
[3,] 3 11 21 31 18
[4,] 4 13 23 33 19
[5,] 5 15 25 35 20
 
now, what if i had a matrix cc? i want to perform the above operation on
all three matrices a, b, cc.
 
 cc - matrix(1:10,ncol=2); colnames(cc) - c(e,f)

i need to end up with:

 a  b  c  d  e  f
[1,] 1  7 17 27 17  6
[2,] 2  9 19 29 19  7
[3,] 3 11 21 31 21  8
[4,] 4 13 23 33 23  9
[5,] 5 15 25 35 25 10

and, in general, with multiple matrices with intersecting colnames?

thanks,

murali

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[R] Goldbach partitions code

2009-03-02 Thread Murali.MENON
Folks,
 
I put up a brief note describing my naive attempts to compute Goldbach
partitions, starting with a brute-force approach and refining
progressively. 
 
http://jostamon.blogspot.com/2009/02/goldbachs-comet.html
 
I'd welcome your suggestions on improvements, alternatives, other
optimisations, esp. to do with space vs time tradeoffs. 
 
Is this an example interesting enough for pedagogical purposes, do you
think? 
 
Please advise. 
 
Cheers,
 
MM
 

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