DataManipulation
Branko Arsic
Data transformation
options(warn=-1)
# options(warn=0)
library(nycflights13)
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## v tidyr 1.1.2 v stringr 1.4.0
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## x dplyr::filter() masks stats::filter()
## x dplyr::lag() masks stats::lag()Explore data
flights## # A tibble: 336,776 x 19
## year month day dep_time sched_dep_time dep_delay arr_time sched_arr_time
## <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <dbl> <int> <int>
## 1 2013 1 1 517 515 2 830 819
## 2 2013 1 1 533 529 4 850 830
## 3 2013 1 1 542 540 2 923 850
## 4 2013 1 1 544 545 -1 1004 1022
## 5 2013 1 1 554 600 -6 812 837
## 6 2013 1 1 554 558 -4 740 728
## 7 2013 1 1 555 600 -5 913 854
## 8 2013 1 1 557 600 -3 709 723
## 9 2013 1 1 557 600 -3 838 846
## 10 2013 1 1 558 600 -2 753 745
## # ... with 336,766 more rows, and 11 more variables: arr_delay <dbl>,
## # carrier <chr>, flight <int>, tailnum <chr>, origin <chr>, dest <chr>,
## # air_time <dbl>, distance <dbl>, hour <dbl>, minute <dbl>, time_hour <dttm># Tibbles are data frames, but slightly tweaked to work better in the tidyverse. For now, you don’t need to worry about the differences; we’ll come back to tibbles in more detail in wrangle.
# You might also have noticed the row of three (or four) letter abbreviations under the column names. These describe the type of each variable:
# int stands for integers.
# dbl stands for doubles, or real numbers.
# chr stands for character vectors, or strings.
# dttm stands for date-times (a date + a time).
# lgl stands for logical, vectors that contain only TRUE or FALSE.
# fctr stands for factors, which R uses to represent categorical variables with fixed possible values.
# date stands for datesFilter rows with filter()
R provides the standard comparison operators: >, >=, <, <=, != (not equal), and == (equal).
jan1 = filter(flights, month == 1, day == 1)
print(jan1)## # A tibble: 842 x 19
## year month day dep_time sched_dep_time dep_delay arr_time sched_arr_time
## <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <dbl> <int> <int>
## 1 2013 1 1 517 515 2 830 819
## 2 2013 1 1 533 529 4 850 830
## 3 2013 1 1 542 540 2 923 850
## 4 2013 1 1 544 545 -1 1004 1022
## 5 2013 1 1 554 600 -6 812 837
## 6 2013 1 1 554 558 -4 740 728
## 7 2013 1 1 555 600 -5 913 854
## 8 2013 1 1 557 600 -3 709 723
## 9 2013 1 1 557 600 -3 838 846
## 10 2013 1 1 558 600 -2 753 745
## # ... with 832 more rows, and 11 more variables: arr_delay <dbl>,
## # carrier <chr>, flight <int>, tailnum <chr>, origin <chr>, dest <chr>,
## # air_time <dbl>, distance <dbl>, hour <dbl>, minute <dbl>, time_hour <dttm>(dec25 <- filter(flights, month == 12, day == 25))## # A tibble: 719 x 19
## year month day dep_time sched_dep_time dep_delay arr_time sched_arr_time
## <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <dbl> <int> <int>
## 1 2013 12 25 456 500 -4 649 651
## 2 2013 12 25 524 515 9 805 814
## 3 2013 12 25 542 540 2 832 850
## 4 2013 12 25 546 550 -4 1022 1027
## 5 2013 12 25 556 600 -4 730 745
## 6 2013 12 25 557 600 -3 743 752
## 7 2013 12 25 557 600 -3 818 831
## 8 2013 12 25 559 600 -1 855 856
## 9 2013 12 25 559 600 -1 849 855
## 10 2013 12 25 600 600 0 850 846
## # ... with 709 more rows, and 11 more variables: arr_delay <dbl>,
## # carrier <chr>, flight <int>, tailnum <chr>, origin <chr>, dest <chr>,
## # air_time <dbl>, distance <dbl>, hour <dbl>, minute <dbl>, time_hour <dttm>sqrt(2) ^ 2 == 2## [1] FALSE1 / 49 * 49 == 1## [1] FALSE# use: near(sqrt(2) ^ 2, 2)Logical operators
# & is “and”, | is “or”, and ! is “not”; is.na(), between(), near()
filter(flights, month == 11 | month == 12)## # A tibble: 55,403 x 19
## year month day dep_time sched_dep_time dep_delay arr_time sched_arr_time
## <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <dbl> <int> <int>
## 1 2013 11 1 5 2359 6 352 345
## 2 2013 11 1 35 2250 105 123 2356
## 3 2013 11 1 455 500 -5 641 651
## 4 2013 11 1 539 545 -6 856 827
## 5 2013 11 1 542 545 -3 831 855
## 6 2013 11 1 549 600 -11 912 923
## 7 2013 11 1 550 600 -10 705 659
## 8 2013 11 1 554 600 -6 659 701
## 9 2013 11 1 554 600 -6 826 827
## 10 2013 11 1 554 600 -6 749 751
## # ... with 55,393 more rows, and 11 more variables: arr_delay <dbl>,
## # carrier <chr>, flight <int>, tailnum <chr>, origin <chr>, dest <chr>,
## # air_time <dbl>, distance <dbl>, hour <dbl>, minute <dbl>, time_hour <dttm>(nov_dec = filter(flights, month %in% c(11, 12)))## # A tibble: 55,403 x 19
## year month day dep_time sched_dep_time dep_delay arr_time sched_arr_time
## <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <dbl> <int> <int>
## 1 2013 11 1 5 2359 6 352 345
## 2 2013 11 1 35 2250 105 123 2356
## 3 2013 11 1 455 500 -5 641 651
## 4 2013 11 1 539 545 -6 856 827
## 5 2013 11 1 542 545 -3 831 855
## 6 2013 11 1 549 600 -11 912 923
## 7 2013 11 1 550 600 -10 705 659
## 8 2013 11 1 554 600 -6 659 701
## 9 2013 11 1 554 600 -6 826 827
## 10 2013 11 1 554 600 -6 749 751
## # ... with 55,393 more rows, and 11 more variables: arr_delay <dbl>,
## # carrier <chr>, flight <int>, tailnum <chr>, origin <chr>, dest <chr>,
## # air_time <dbl>, distance <dbl>, hour <dbl>, minute <dbl>, time_hour <dttm>Find flights that weren’t delayed (on arrival or departure) by more than two hours
print(filter(flights, !(arr_delay > 120 | dep_delay > 120)))## # A tibble: 316,050 x 19
## year month day dep_time sched_dep_time dep_delay arr_time sched_arr_time
## <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <dbl> <int> <int>
## 1 2013 1 1 517 515 2 830 819
## 2 2013 1 1 533 529 4 850 830
## 3 2013 1 1 542 540 2 923 850
## 4 2013 1 1 544 545 -1 1004 1022
## 5 2013 1 1 554 600 -6 812 837
## 6 2013 1 1 554 558 -4 740 728
## 7 2013 1 1 555 600 -5 913 854
## 8 2013 1 1 557 600 -3 709 723
## 9 2013 1 1 557 600 -3 838 846
## 10 2013 1 1 558 600 -2 753 745
## # ... with 316,040 more rows, and 11 more variables: arr_delay <dbl>,
## # carrier <chr>, flight <int>, tailnum <chr>, origin <chr>, dest <chr>,
## # air_time <dbl>, distance <dbl>, hour <dbl>, minute <dbl>, time_hour <dttm># print(filter(flights, arr_delay <= 120 & dep_delay <= 120))Missing values
# NA - “not availables”
# is.na(x)
NA > 5## [1] NAdf <- tibble(x = c(1, NA, 3))
# filter excludes both FALSE and NA values - ask for them explicitly
filter(df, is.na(x) | x > 1)## # A tibble: 2 x 1
## x
## <dbl>
## 1 NA
## 2 3Exercises
- Find all flights that:
- Had an arrival delay of two or more hours
- Flew to Houston (IAH or HOU)
- Were operated by United, American, or Delta
- Departed in summer (July, August, and September)
- Arrived more than two hours late, but didn’t leave late
- Were delayed by at least an hour, but made up over 30 minutes in flight
- Departed between midnight and 6am (inclusive)
Another useful dplyr filtering helper is between(). What does it do? Can you use it to simplify the code needed to answer the previous challenges?
How many flights have a missing dep_time? What other variables are missing? What might these rows represent?
Arrange rows with arrange()
Missing values are always sorted at the end…
arrange(flights, year, month, day)## # A tibble: 336,776 x 19
## year month day dep_time sched_dep_time dep_delay arr_time sched_arr_time
## <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <dbl> <int> <int>
## 1 2013 1 1 517 515 2 830 819
## 2 2013 1 1 533 529 4 850 830
## 3 2013 1 1 542 540 2 923 850
## 4 2013 1 1 544 545 -1 1004 1022
## 5 2013 1 1 554 600 -6 812 837
## 6 2013 1 1 554 558 -4 740 728
## 7 2013 1 1 555 600 -5 913 854
## 8 2013 1 1 557 600 -3 709 723
## 9 2013 1 1 557 600 -3 838 846
## 10 2013 1 1 558 600 -2 753 745
## # ... with 336,766 more rows, and 11 more variables: arr_delay <dbl>,
## # carrier <chr>, flight <int>, tailnum <chr>, origin <chr>, dest <chr>,
## # air_time <dbl>, distance <dbl>, hour <dbl>, minute <dbl>, time_hour <dttm>arrange(flights, desc(dep_delay))## # A tibble: 336,776 x 19
## year month day dep_time sched_dep_time dep_delay arr_time sched_arr_time
## <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <dbl> <int> <int>
## 1 2013 1 9 641 900 1301 1242 1530
## 2 2013 6 15 1432 1935 1137 1607 2120
## 3 2013 1 10 1121 1635 1126 1239 1810
## 4 2013 9 20 1139 1845 1014 1457 2210
## 5 2013 7 22 845 1600 1005 1044 1815
## 6 2013 4 10 1100 1900 960 1342 2211
## 7 2013 3 17 2321 810 911 135 1020
## 8 2013 6 27 959 1900 899 1236 2226
## 9 2013 7 22 2257 759 898 121 1026
## 10 2013 12 5 756 1700 896 1058 2020
## # ... with 336,766 more rows, and 11 more variables: arr_delay <dbl>,
## # carrier <chr>, flight <int>, tailnum <chr>, origin <chr>, dest <chr>,
## # air_time <dbl>, distance <dbl>, hour <dbl>, minute <dbl>, time_hour <dttm>Select columns with select()
select(flights, year, month, day)## # A tibble: 336,776 x 3
## year month day
## <int> <int> <int>
## 1 2013 1 1
## 2 2013 1 1
## 3 2013 1 1
## 4 2013 1 1
## 5 2013 1 1
## 6 2013 1 1
## 7 2013 1 1
## 8 2013 1 1
## 9 2013 1 1
## 10 2013 1 1
## # ... with 336,766 more rows# select(flights, year:day) \
# select(flights, -(year:day))Helper functions:
starts_with(“abc”): matches names that begin with “abc”.
ends_with(“xyz”): matches names that end with “xyz”.
contains(“ijk”): matches names that contain “ijk”.
matches(“(.)\\1”): selects variables that match a regular expression. This one matches any variables that contain repeated characters. You’ll learn more about regular expressions in strings.
num_range(“x”, 1:3): matches x1, x2 and x3
Reorder columns
select(flights, time_hour, air_time, everything())## # A tibble: 336,776 x 19
## time_hour air_time year month day dep_time sched_dep_time
## <dttm> <dbl> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int>
## 1 2013-01-01 05:00:00 227 2013 1 1 517 515
## 2 2013-01-01 05:00:00 227 2013 1 1 533 529
## 3 2013-01-01 05:00:00 160 2013 1 1 542 540
## 4 2013-01-01 05:00:00 183 2013 1 1 544 545
## 5 2013-01-01 06:00:00 116 2013 1 1 554 600
## 6 2013-01-01 05:00:00 150 2013 1 1 554 558
## 7 2013-01-01 06:00:00 158 2013 1 1 555 600
## 8 2013-01-01 06:00:00 53 2013 1 1 557 600
## 9 2013-01-01 06:00:00 140 2013 1 1 557 600
## 10 2013-01-01 06:00:00 138 2013 1 1 558 600
## # ... with 336,766 more rows, and 12 more variables: dep_delay <dbl>,
## # arr_time <int>, sched_arr_time <int>, arr_delay <dbl>, carrier <chr>,
## # flight <int>, tailnum <chr>, origin <chr>, dest <chr>, distance <dbl>,
## # hour <dbl>, minute <dbl>rename(flights, tail_num = tailnum)## # A tibble: 336,776 x 19
## year month day dep_time sched_dep_time dep_delay arr_time sched_arr_time
## <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <dbl> <int> <int>
## 1 2013 1 1 517 515 2 830 819
## 2 2013 1 1 533 529 4 850 830
## 3 2013 1 1 542 540 2 923 850
## 4 2013 1 1 544 545 -1 1004 1022
## 5 2013 1 1 554 600 -6 812 837
## 6 2013 1 1 554 558 -4 740 728
## 7 2013 1 1 555 600 -5 913 854
## 8 2013 1 1 557 600 -3 709 723
## 9 2013 1 1 557 600 -3 838 846
## 10 2013 1 1 558 600 -2 753 745
## # ... with 336,766 more rows, and 11 more variables: arr_delay <dbl>,
## # carrier <chr>, flight <int>, tail_num <chr>, origin <chr>, dest <chr>,
## # air_time <dbl>, distance <dbl>, hour <dbl>, minute <dbl>, time_hour <dttm>Add new variables with mutate()
flights_sml = select(flights,
year:day,
ends_with("delay"),
distance,
air_time
)
mutate(flights_sml,
gain = dep_delay - arr_delay,
speed = distance / air_time * 60
)## # A tibble: 336,776 x 9
## year month day dep_delay arr_delay distance air_time gain speed
## <int> <int> <int> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 2013 1 1 2 11 1400 227 -9 370.
## 2 2013 1 1 4 20 1416 227 -16 374.
## 3 2013 1 1 2 33 1089 160 -31 408.
## 4 2013 1 1 -1 -18 1576 183 17 517.
## 5 2013 1 1 -6 -25 762 116 19 394.
## 6 2013 1 1 -4 12 719 150 -16 288.
## 7 2013 1 1 -5 19 1065 158 -24 404.
## 8 2013 1 1 -3 -14 229 53 11 259.
## 9 2013 1 1 -3 -8 944 140 5 405.
## 10 2013 1 1 -2 8 733 138 -10 319.
## # ... with 336,766 more rowsflights_sml = mutate(flights_sml,
gain = dep_delay - arr_delay,
hours = air_time / 60,
gain_per_hour = gain / hours
)
# view(flights_sml)If you only want to keep the new variables, use transmute():
transmute(flights,
gain = dep_delay - arr_delay,
hours = air_time / 60,
gain_per_hour = gain / hours
)## # A tibble: 336,776 x 3
## gain hours gain_per_hour
## <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 -9 3.78 -2.38
## 2 -16 3.78 -4.23
## 3 -31 2.67 -11.6
## 4 17 3.05 5.57
## 5 19 1.93 9.83
## 6 -16 2.5 -6.4
## 7 -24 2.63 -9.11
## 8 11 0.883 12.5
## 9 5 2.33 2.14
## 10 -10 2.3 -4.35
## # ... with 336,766 more rows# %/% (integer division) and %% (remainder)
transmute(flights,
dep_time,
hour = dep_time %/% 100,
minute = dep_time %% 100
)## # A tibble: 336,776 x 3
## dep_time hour minute
## <int> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 517 5 17
## 2 533 5 33
## 3 542 5 42
## 4 544 5 44
## 5 554 5 54
## 6 554 5 54
## 7 555 5 55
## 8 557 5 57
## 9 557 5 57
## 10 558 5 58
## # ... with 336,766 more rowsAdditonal functions used in mutate()
Cumulative and rolling aggregates: cumsum(), cumprod(), cummin(), cummax(); and dplyr provides cummean() for cumulative means.
log(), log2(), log10()
lead() and lag() allow you to refer to leading or lagging values.
Logical comparisons, <, <=, >, >=, !=, and ==
Exercises - - HOMEWORK
Currently dep_time and sched_dep_time are convenient to look at, but hard to compute with because they’re not really continuous numbers. Convert them to a more convenient representation of number of minutes since midnight.
Compare air_time with arr_time - dep_time. What do you expect to see? What do you see? What do you need to do to fix it?
Compare dep_time, sched_dep_time, and dep_delay. How would you expect those three numbers to be related?
Find the 10 most delayed flights using a ranking function. How do you want to handle ties? Carefully read the documentation for min_rank().
What does 1:3 + 1:10 return? Why?
What trigonometric functions does R provide?
Grouped summaries with summarise()
summarise(flights, delay = mean(dep_delay, na.rm = TRUE))## # A tibble: 1 x 1
## delay
## <dbl>
## 1 12.6by_day <- group_by(flights, year, month, day)
summarise(by_day, delay = mean(dep_delay, na.rm = TRUE))## `summarise()` regrouping output by 'year', 'month' (override with `.groups` argument)## # A tibble: 365 x 4
## # Groups: year, month [12]
## year month day delay
## <int> <int> <int> <dbl>
## 1 2013 1 1 11.5
## 2 2013 1 2 13.9
## 3 2013 1 3 11.0
## 4 2013 1 4 8.95
## 5 2013 1 5 5.73
## 6 2013 1 6 7.15
## 7 2013 1 7 5.42
## 8 2013 1 8 2.55
## 9 2013 1 9 2.28
## 10 2013 1 10 2.84
## # ... with 355 more rowsCombining multiple operations with the pipe
Imagine that we want to explore the relationship between the distance and average delay for each location.
by_dest <- group_by(flights, dest)
delay <- summarise(by_dest,
count = n(),
dist = mean(distance, na.rm = TRUE),
delay = mean(arr_delay, na.rm = TRUE)
)## `summarise()` ungrouping output (override with `.groups` argument)(delay <- filter(delay, count > 20, dest != "HNL"))## # A tibble: 96 x 4
## dest count dist delay
## <chr> <int> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 ABQ 254 1826 4.38
## 2 ACK 265 199 4.85
## 3 ALB 439 143 14.4
## 4 ATL 17215 757. 11.3
## 5 AUS 2439 1514. 6.02
## 6 AVL 275 584. 8.00
## 7 BDL 443 116 7.05
## 8 BGR 375 378 8.03
## 9 BHM 297 866. 16.9
## 10 BNA 6333 758. 11.8
## # ... with 86 more rows# It looks like delays increase with distance up to ~750 miles
# and then decrease. Maybe as flights get longer there's more
# ability to make up delays in the air?
ggplot(data = delay, mapping = aes(x = dist, y = delay)) +
geom_point(aes(size = count), alpha = 1/3) +
geom_smooth(se = FALSE)## `geom_smooth()` using method = 'loess' and formula 'y ~ x'
PIPE:
delays <- flights %>%
group_by(dest) %>%
summarise(
count = n(),
dist = mean(distance, na.rm = TRUE),
delay = mean(arr_delay, na.rm = TRUE)
) %>%
filter(count > 20, dest != "HNL")## `summarise()` ungrouping output (override with `.groups` argument)https://r4ds.had.co.nz/pipes.html#pipes – CHECK!!!
Missing values
flights %>%
group_by(year, month, day) %>%
summarise(mean = mean(dep_delay))## `summarise()` regrouping output by 'year', 'month' (override with `.groups` argument)## # A tibble: 365 x 4
## # Groups: year, month [12]
## year month day mean
## <int> <int> <int> <dbl>
## 1 2013 1 1 NA
## 2 2013 1 2 NA
## 3 2013 1 3 NA
## 4 2013 1 4 NA
## 5 2013 1 5 NA
## 6 2013 1 6 NA
## 7 2013 1 7 NA
## 8 2013 1 8 NA
## 9 2013 1 9 NA
## 10 2013 1 10 NA
## # ... with 355 more rowsflights %>%
group_by(year, month, day) %>%
summarise(mean = mean(dep_delay, na.rm = TRUE))## `summarise()` regrouping output by 'year', 'month' (override with `.groups` argument)## # A tibble: 365 x 4
## # Groups: year, month [12]
## year month day mean
## <int> <int> <int> <dbl>
## 1 2013 1 1 11.5
## 2 2013 1 2 13.9
## 3 2013 1 3 11.0
## 4 2013 1 4 8.95
## 5 2013 1 5 5.73
## 6 2013 1 6 7.15
## 7 2013 1 7 5.42
## 8 2013 1 8 2.55
## 9 2013 1 9 2.28
## 10 2013 1 10 2.84
## # ... with 355 more rowsIn this case, where missing values represent cancelled flights, we could also tackle the problem by first removing the cancelled flights
not_cancelled = flights %>%
filter(!is.na(dep_delay), !is.na(arr_delay))
not_cancelled %>%
group_by(year, month, day) %>%
summarise(mean = mean(dep_delay))## `summarise()` regrouping output by 'year', 'month' (override with `.groups` argument)## # A tibble: 365 x 4
## # Groups: year, month [12]
## year month day mean
## <int> <int> <int> <dbl>
## 1 2013 1 1 11.4
## 2 2013 1 2 13.7
## 3 2013 1 3 10.9
## 4 2013 1 4 8.97
## 5 2013 1 5 5.73
## 6 2013 1 6 7.15
## 7 2013 1 7 5.42
## 8 2013 1 8 2.56
## 9 2013 1 9 2.30
## 10 2013 1 10 2.84
## # ... with 355 more rowsCount
There are some planes that have an average delay of 5 hours (300 minutes).
delays <- not_cancelled %>%
group_by(tailnum) %>%
summarise(
delay = mean(arr_delay)
)## `summarise()` ungrouping output (override with `.groups` argument)ggplot(data = delays, mapping = aes(x = delay)) +
geom_freqpoly(binwidth = 10)
delays <- not_cancelled %>%
group_by(tailnum) %>%
summarise(
delay = mean(arr_delay, na.rm = TRUE),
n = n()
)## `summarise()` ungrouping output (override with `.groups` argument)ggplot(data = delays, mapping = aes(x = n, y = delay)) +
geom_point(alpha = 1/10)
Not surprisingly, there is much greater variation in the average delay when there are few flights. The shape of this plot is very characteristic: whenever you plot a mean (or other summary) vs. group size, you’ll see that the variation decreases as the sample size increases.
delays %>%
filter(n > 25) %>%
ggplot(mapping = aes(x = n, y = delay)) +
geom_point(alpha = 1/10)
Useful summary functions
mean(x), median(x), sd(x), IQR(x), mad(x)
not_cancelled %>%
group_by(year, month, day) %>%
summarise(
avg_delay1 = mean(arr_delay),
avg_delay2 = mean(arr_delay[arr_delay > 0]) # the average positive delay
)## `summarise()` regrouping output by 'year', 'month' (override with `.groups` argument)## # A tibble: 365 x 5
## # Groups: year, month [12]
## year month day avg_delay1 avg_delay2
## <int> <int> <int> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 2013 1 1 12.7 32.5
## 2 2013 1 2 12.7 32.0
## 3 2013 1 3 5.73 27.7
## 4 2013 1 4 -1.93 28.3
## 5 2013 1 5 -1.53 22.6
## 6 2013 1 6 4.24 24.4
## 7 2013 1 7 -4.95 27.8
## 8 2013 1 8 -3.23 20.8
## 9 2013 1 9 -0.264 25.6
## 10 2013 1 10 -5.90 27.3
## # ... with 355 more rows# Why is distance to some destinations more variable than to others?
not_cancelled %>%
group_by(dest) %>%
summarise(distance_sd = sd(distance)) %>%
arrange(desc(distance_sd))## `summarise()` ungrouping output (override with `.groups` argument)## # A tibble: 104 x 2
## dest distance_sd
## <chr> <dbl>
## 1 EGE 10.5
## 2 SAN 10.4
## 3 SFO 10.2
## 4 HNL 10.0
## 5 SEA 9.98
## 6 LAS 9.91
## 7 PDX 9.87
## 8 PHX 9.86
## 9 LAX 9.66
## 10 IND 9.46
## # ... with 94 more rowsmin(x), quantile(x, 0.25), max(x)
# When do the first and last flights leave each day?
not_cancelled %>%
group_by(year, month, day) %>%
summarise(
first = min(dep_time),
last = max(dep_time)
)## `summarise()` regrouping output by 'year', 'month' (override with `.groups` argument)## # A tibble: 365 x 5
## # Groups: year, month [12]
## year month day first last
## <int> <int> <int> <int> <int>
## 1 2013 1 1 517 2356
## 2 2013 1 2 42 2354
## 3 2013 1 3 32 2349
## 4 2013 1 4 25 2358
## 5 2013 1 5 14 2357
## 6 2013 1 6 16 2355
## 7 2013 1 7 49 2359
## 8 2013 1 8 454 2351
## 9 2013 1 9 2 2252
## 10 2013 1 10 3 2320
## # ... with 355 more rowsfirst(x), nth(x, 2), last(x)
not_cancelled %>%
group_by(year, month, day) %>%
summarise(
first_dep = first(dep_time),
last_dep = last(dep_time)
)## `summarise()` regrouping output by 'year', 'month' (override with `.groups` argument)## # A tibble: 365 x 5
## # Groups: year, month [12]
## year month day first_dep last_dep
## <int> <int> <int> <int> <int>
## 1 2013 1 1 517 2356
## 2 2013 1 2 42 2354
## 3 2013 1 3 32 2349
## 4 2013 1 4 25 2358
## 5 2013 1 5 14 2357
## 6 2013 1 6 16 2355
## 7 2013 1 7 49 2359
## 8 2013 1 8 454 2351
## 9 2013 1 9 2 2252
## 10 2013 1 10 3 2320
## # ... with 355 more rowsnot_cancelled %>%
group_by(year, month, day) %>%
mutate(r = min_rank(desc(dep_time))) %>%
filter(r %in% range(r))## # A tibble: 770 x 20
## # Groups: year, month, day [365]
## year month day dep_time sched_dep_time dep_delay arr_time sched_arr_time
## <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <dbl> <int> <int>
## 1 2013 1 1 517 515 2 830 819
## 2 2013 1 1 2356 2359 -3 425 437
## 3 2013 1 2 42 2359 43 518 442
## 4 2013 1 2 2354 2359 -5 413 437
## 5 2013 1 3 32 2359 33 504 442
## 6 2013 1 3 2349 2359 -10 434 445
## 7 2013 1 4 25 2359 26 505 442
## 8 2013 1 4 2358 2359 -1 429 437
## 9 2013 1 4 2358 2359 -1 436 445
## 10 2013 1 5 14 2359 15 503 445
## # ... with 760 more rows, and 12 more variables: arr_delay <dbl>,
## # carrier <chr>, flight <int>, tailnum <chr>, origin <chr>, dest <chr>,
## # air_time <dbl>, distance <dbl>, hour <dbl>, minute <dbl>, time_hour <dttm>,
## # r <int>n(), number of non-missing values: sum(!is.na(x)), n_distinct(x)
# Which destinations have the most carriers?
not_cancelled %>%
group_by(dest) %>%
summarise(carriers = n_distinct(carrier)) %>%
arrange(desc(carriers))## `summarise()` ungrouping output (override with `.groups` argument)## # A tibble: 104 x 2
## dest carriers
## <chr> <int>
## 1 ATL 7
## 2 BOS 7
## 3 CLT 7
## 4 ORD 7
## 5 TPA 7
## 6 AUS 6
## 7 DCA 6
## 8 DTW 6
## 9 IAD 6
## 10 MSP 6
## # ... with 94 more rows# “count” (sum) the total number of miles a plane flew
not_cancelled %>%
count(tailnum, wt = distance)## # A tibble: 4,037 x 2
## tailnum n
## <chr> <dbl>
## 1 D942DN 3418
## 2 N0EGMQ 239143
## 3 N10156 109664
## 4 N102UW 25722
## 5 N103US 24619
## 6 N104UW 24616
## 7 N10575 139903
## 8 N105UW 23618
## 9 N107US 21677
## 10 N108UW 32070
## # ... with 4,027 more rowsCounts and proportions of logical values: sum(x > 10), mean(y == 0)
# How many flights left before 5am? (these usually indicate delayed flights from the previous day)
not_cancelled %>%
group_by(year, month, day) %>%
summarise(n_early = sum(dep_time < 500))## `summarise()` regrouping output by 'year', 'month' (override with `.groups` argument)## # A tibble: 365 x 4
## # Groups: year, month [12]
## year month day n_early
## <int> <int> <int> <int>
## 1 2013 1 1 0
## 2 2013 1 2 3
## 3 2013 1 3 4
## 4 2013 1 4 3
## 5 2013 1 5 3
## 6 2013 1 6 2
## 7 2013 1 7 2
## 8 2013 1 8 1
## 9 2013 1 9 3
## 10 2013 1 10 3
## # ... with 355 more rows# What proportion of flights are delayed by more than an hour?
not_cancelled %>%
group_by(year, month, day) %>%
summarise(hour_perc = mean(arr_delay > 60))## `summarise()` regrouping output by 'year', 'month' (override with `.groups` argument)## # A tibble: 365 x 4
## # Groups: year, month [12]
## year month day hour_perc
## <int> <int> <int> <dbl>
## 1 2013 1 1 0.0722
## 2 2013 1 2 0.0851
## 3 2013 1 3 0.0567
## 4 2013 1 4 0.0396
## 5 2013 1 5 0.0349
## 6 2013 1 6 0.0470
## 7 2013 1 7 0.0333
## 8 2013 1 8 0.0213
## 9 2013 1 9 0.0202
## 10 2013 1 10 0.0183
## # ... with 355 more rowsGrouping by multiple variables
# When you group by multiple variables, each summary peels off one level of the grouping
daily <- group_by(flights, year, month, day)
(per_day <- summarise(daily, flights = n()))## `summarise()` regrouping output by 'year', 'month' (override with `.groups` argument)## # A tibble: 365 x 4
## # Groups: year, month [12]
## year month day flights
## <int> <int> <int> <int>
## 1 2013 1 1 842
## 2 2013 1 2 943
## 3 2013 1 3 914
## 4 2013 1 4 915
## 5 2013 1 5 720
## 6 2013 1 6 832
## 7 2013 1 7 933
## 8 2013 1 8 899
## 9 2013 1 9 902
## 10 2013 1 10 932
## # ... with 355 more rows(per_month <- summarise(per_day, flights = sum(flights)))## `summarise()` regrouping output by 'year' (override with `.groups` argument)## # A tibble: 12 x 3
## # Groups: year [1]
## year month flights
## <int> <int> <int>
## 1 2013 1 27004
## 2 2013 2 24951
## 3 2013 3 28834
## 4 2013 4 28330
## 5 2013 5 28796
## 6 2013 6 28243
## 7 2013 7 29425
## 8 2013 8 29327
## 9 2013 9 27574
## 10 2013 10 28889
## 11 2013 11 27268
## 12 2013 12 28135(per_year <- summarise(per_month, flights = sum(flights)))## `summarise()` ungrouping output (override with `.groups` argument)## # A tibble: 1 x 2
## year flights
## <int> <int>
## 1 2013 336776# Ungroup
daily %>%
ungroup() %>% # no longer grouped by date
summarise(flights = n()) # all flights## # A tibble: 1 x 1
## flights
## <int>
## 1 336776Grouped mutates (and filters)
# Find the worst members of each group
flights_sml %>%
group_by(year, month, day) %>%
filter(rank(desc(arr_delay)) < 10)## # A tibble: 3,306 x 10
## # Groups: year, month, day [365]
## year month day dep_delay arr_delay distance air_time gain hours
## <int> <int> <int> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 2013 1 1 853 851 184 41 2 0.683
## 2 2013 1 1 290 338 1134 213 -48 3.55
## 3 2013 1 1 260 263 266 46 -3 0.767
## 4 2013 1 1 157 174 213 60 -17 1
## 5 2013 1 1 216 222 708 121 -6 2.02
## 6 2013 1 1 255 250 589 115 5 1.92
## 7 2013 1 1 285 246 1085 146 39 2.43
## 8 2013 1 1 192 191 199 44 1 0.733
## 9 2013 1 1 379 456 1092 222 -77 3.7
## 10 2013 1 2 224 207 550 94 17 1.57
## # ... with 3,296 more rows, and 1 more variable: gain_per_hour <dbl># Find all groups bigger than a threshold
popular_dests <- flights %>%
group_by(dest) %>%
filter(n() > 365)
popular_dests## # A tibble: 332,577 x 19
## # Groups: dest [77]
## year month day dep_time sched_dep_time dep_delay arr_time sched_arr_time
## <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <dbl> <int> <int>
## 1 2013 1 1 517 515 2 830 819
## 2 2013 1 1 533 529 4 850 830
## 3 2013 1 1 542 540 2 923 850
## 4 2013 1 1 544 545 -1 1004 1022
## 5 2013 1 1 554 600 -6 812 837
## 6 2013 1 1 554 558 -4 740 728
## 7 2013 1 1 555 600 -5 913 854
## 8 2013 1 1 557 600 -3 709 723
## 9 2013 1 1 557 600 -3 838 846
## 10 2013 1 1 558 600 -2 753 745
## # ... with 332,567 more rows, and 11 more variables: arr_delay <dbl>,
## # carrier <chr>, flight <int>, tailnum <chr>, origin <chr>, dest <chr>,
## # air_time <dbl>, distance <dbl>, hour <dbl>, minute <dbl>, time_hour <dttm>Exercises
Refer back to the lists of useful mutate and filtering functions. Describe how each operation changes when you combine it with grouping.
Which plane (tailnum) has the worst on-time record?
What time of day should you fly if you want to avoid delays as much as possible?
For each destination, compute the total minutes of delay. For each flight, compute the proportion of the total delay for its destination.
Delays are typically temporally correlated: even once the problem that caused the initial delay has been resolved, later flights are delayed to allow earlier flights to leave. Using lag(), explore how the delay of a flight is related to the delay of the immediately preceding flight.
Look at each destination. Can you find flights that are suspiciously fast? (i.e. flights that represent a potential data entry error). Compute the air time a flight relative to the shortest flight to that destination. Which flights were most delayed in the air?
Find all destinations that are flown by at least two carriers. Use that information to rank the carriers.
For each plane, count the number of flights before the first delay of greater than 1 hour.