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DataCombine (version 0.2.19)

Tools for Easily Combining and Cleaning Data Sets

Description

Tools for combining and cleaning data sets, particularly with grouped and time series data.

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install.packages('DataCombine')

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Version

0.2.19

License

GPL (>= 3)

Maintainer

Christopher Gandrud

Last Published

March 7th, 2016

Functions in DataCombine (0.2.19)

DropNA

Drop rows from a data frame with missing values on a given variable(s).
change

Calculate the changes (absolute, percent, and proportion) changes from a specified lag, including within groups
shift

A function for creating lag and lead variables.
slideMA

Create a moving average for a period before or after each time point for a given variable
StartEnd

Find the starting and ending time points of a spell
TimeFill

Creates a continuous Unit-Time-Dummy data frame from a data frame with Unit-Start-End times
TimeExpand

Expands a data set so that it includes an observation for each time point in a sequence. Works with grouped data.
slide

A function for creating lag and lead variables, including for time-series cross-sectional data.
PercChange

Calculate the percentage change from a specified lag, including within groups
MoveFront

Move variables to the front of a data frame.
SpreadDummy

Spread a dummy variable (1's and 0') over a specified time period and for specified groups
CountSpell

Count spells, including for grouped data
grepl.sub

Subset a data frame if a specified pattern is found in a character string
rmExcept

Remove all objects from a workspace except those specified by the user.
FillDown

Fills in missing (NA) values with the previous non-missing value
FillIn

A function for filling in missing values of a variable from one data frame with the values from another variable.
NaVar

Create new variable(s) indicating if there are missing values in other variable(s)
InsertRow

Inserts a new row into a data frame
FindReplace

Replace multiple patterns found in a character string column of a data frame
dMerge

Merges 2 data frames and report/drop/keeps only duplicates.
shiftMA

Internal function for slideMA
FindDups

Find duplicated values in a data frame and subset it to either include or not include them.
VarDrop

Drop one or more variables from a data frame.