doBy (version 4.1.2)

timeSinceEvent: Calculate "time since event" in a vector.

Description

Events are coded as 1 in numeric vector (and non-events are coded with values different from 1). timeSinceEvent will give the time since event (with and without sign). In a logical vector, events are coded as TRUE and all non-events as FALSE.

Usage

timeSinceEvent(yvar, tvar = seq_along(yvar))

Arguments

yvar

A numerical or logical vector specifying the events

tvar

An optional vector specifying time

Value

• A dataframe with columns 'yvar', 'tvar', 'abs.tse' (absolute time since nearest event), 'sign.tse' (signed time since nearest event) and 'run' (indicator of the time window around each event).

See Also

subSeq, rle

Examples

## Events:
yvar <- c(0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0)

## Plot results:
tse<- timeSinceEvent(yvar)
plot(sign.tse~tvar, data=tse, type="b")
grid()
rug(tse$tvar[tse$yvar==1], col=4,lwd=4)
points(scale(tse$run), col=tse$run,lwd=2)
lines(abs.tse+.2~tvar, data=tse, type="b",col=3)

## Find times for whic time since an event is at most 1:
tse$tvar[tse$abs<=1]