na.approx

Replace NA by Interpolation

Generic functions for replacing each NA with interpolated values.

Usage

na.approx(object, …) 
# S3 method for zoo
na.approx(object, x = index(object), xout, …, na.rm = TRUE, maxgap = Inf, along)
# S3 method for zooreg
na.approx(object, …) 
# S3 method for ts
na.approx(object, …)
# S3 method for default
na.approx(object, x = index(object), xout, …, na.rm = TRUE, maxgap = Inf, along) 
na.spline(object, …) 
# S3 method for zoo
na.spline(object, x = index(object), xout, …, na.rm = TRUE, maxgap = Inf, along)
# S3 method for zooreg
na.spline(object, …) 
# S3 method for ts
na.spline(object, …)
# S3 method for default
na.spline(object, x = index(object), xout, …, na.rm = TRUE, maxgap = Inf, along)

Details

Missing values (NAs) are replaced by linear interpolation via approx or cubic spline interpolation via spline, respectively.

It can also be used for series disaggregation by specifying xout.

By default the index associated with object is used for interpolation. Note, that if this calls index.default this gives an equidistant spacing 1:NROW(object). If object is a matrix or data.frame, the interpolation is done separately for each column.

If obj is a plain vector then na.approx(obj, x, y, xout, ...) returns approx(x = x[!na], y = coredata(obj)[!na], xout = xout, ...) (where na indicates observations with NA) such that xout defaults to x. Note that if there are less than two non-NAs then approx() cannot be applied and thus no NAs can be replaced.

If obj is a zoo, zooreg or ts object its coredata value is processed as described and its time index is xout if specified and index(obj) otherwise. If obj is two dimensional then the above is applied to each column separately. For examples, see below.

If obj has more than one column, the above strategy is applied to each column.

See Also

zoo, approx, na.contiguous, na.locf, na.omit, na.trim, spline, stinterp

Aliases

• na.approx
• na.approx.zoo
• na.approx.zooreg
• na.approx.ts
• na.approx.default
• na.spline
• na.spline.zoo
• na.spline.zooreg
• na.spline.ts
• na.spline.default

Examples

# NOT RUN {
z <- zoo(c(2, NA, 1, 4, 5, 2), c(1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8))

## use underlying time scale for interpolation
na.approx(z) 
## use equidistant spacing
na.approx(z, 1:6)

# with and without na.rm = FALSE
zz <- c(NA, 9, 3, NA, 3, 2)
na.approx(zz, na.rm = FALSE)
na.approx(zz)

d0 <- as.Date("2000-01-01")
z <- zoo(c(11, NA, 13, NA, 15, NA), d0 + 1:6)

# NA fill, drop or keep leading/trailing NAs
na.approx(z)
na.approx(z, na.rm = FALSE)

# extrapolate to point outside of range of time points
# (a) drop NA, (b) keep NA, (c) extrapolate using rule = 2 from approx()
na.approx(z, xout = d0 + 7)
na.approx(z, xout = d0 + 7, na.rm = FALSE)
na.approx(z, xout = d0 + 7, rule = 2)

# use splines - extrapolation handled differently
z <- zoo(c(11, NA, 13, NA, 15, NA), d0 + 1:6)
na.spline(z)
na.spline(z, na.rm = FALSE)
na.spline(z, xout = d0 + 1:6)
na.spline(z, xout = d0 + 2:5)
na.spline(z, xout = d0 + 7)
na.spline(z, xout = d0 + 7, na.rm = FALSE)

## using na.approx for disaggregation
zy <- zoo(1:3,  2000:2001)

# yearly to monthly series
zmo <- na.approx(zy, xout = as.yearmon(2000+0:13/12))
zmo

# monthly to daily series
sq <- seq(as.Date(start(zmo)), as.Date(end(zmo), frac = 1), by = "day")
zd <- na.approx(zmo, x = as.Date, xout = sq)
head(zd)

# weekly to daily series
zww <- zoo(1:3, as.Date("2001-01-01") + seq(0, length = 3, by = 7))
zww
zdd <- na.approx(zww, xout = seq(start(zww), end(zww), by = "day"))
zdd

# The lines do not show up because of the NAs
plot(cbind(z, z), type = "b", screen = 1)
# use na.approx to force lines to appear
plot(cbind(z, na.approx(z)), type = "b", screen = 1)

# Workaround where less than 2 NAs can appear in a column
za <- zoo(cbind(1:5, NA, c(1:3, NA, 5), NA)); za

ix <- colSums(!is.na(za)) > 0
za[, ix] <- na.approx(za[, ix]); za

# using na.approx to create regularly spaced series
# z has points at 10, 20 and 40 minutes while output also has a point at 30
if(require("chron")) {
  tt <- as.chron("2000-01-01 10:00:00") + c(1, 2, 4) * as.numeric(times("00:10:00"))
  z <- zoo(1:3, tt)
  tseq <- seq(start(z), end(z), by = times("00:10:00"))
  na.approx(z, xout = tseq)
}
# }