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I am trying to run an aggregate function. The function produces the following
error message:
ERROR MESSAGE:
Error in aggregate.data.frame(as.data.frame(x), ...) :
arguments must have same length
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####Start of code
#I am trying to write a code that will compute the number of hours for which we
have data for each day.
#Here are my data:
inJan<-
structure(list(NewTime = structure(c(1597363200, 1597366800,
1597370400, 1597374000, 1597377600, 1597381200, 1597384800, 1597388400,
1597392000, 1597395600, 1597399200, 1597402800, 1597406400, 1597410000,
1597413600, 1597417200, 1597420800, 1597424400, 1597428000, 1597431600,
1597435200, 1597438800, 1597442400, 1597446000, 1597449600, 1597453200,
1597456800, 1597460400, 1597464000, 1597467600, 1597471200, 1597474800,
1597478400, 1597482000, 1597485600, 1597489200, 1597492800, 1597496400,
1597500000, 1597503600, 1597507200, 1597510800, 1597514400, 1597518000,
1597521600, 1597525200, 1597528800, 1597532400, 1597536000, 1597539600
), class = c("POSIXct", "POSIXt"), tzone = "UTC"), Days =
structure(c(18488,
18488, 18488, 18488, 18488, 18488, 18488, 18488, 18488, 18488,
18488, 18488, 18488, 18488, 18488, 18488, 18488, 18488, 18488,
18488, 18488, 18488, 18488, 18488, 18489, 18489, 18489, 18489,
18489, 18489, 18489, 18489, 18489, 18489, 18489, 18489, 18489,
18489, 18489, 18489, 18489, 18489, 18489, 18489, 18489, 18489,
18489, 18489, 18490, 18490), class = "Date")), class = "data.frame",
row.names = c(NA,-50L))
inJan
names(inJan)
#I have written a function which finds the number of hours between a last time
last(x) and a first time first(x).
# Number of follow-up hours in each day
timediff <- function(x) {
difftime(last(x),first(x),units="hours")
}
#The function I wrote is used in an aggregate function which
# finds the minimum and maximum time in each day, and then
# calls timediff to find the number of hours in each day.
zoop <- aggregate(inJan[,"NewTime"],as.list(inJan[,"Days"]),timediff)
#When I run the aggregate function I receive and error:
#Error in aggregate.data.frame(as.data.frame(x), ...) :
#arguments must have same length
#HOWEVER I believe inJan[,"NewTime"] and inJan[,"Days"] have the same length
llength(inJan[,"NewTime"])
#[1] 50
length(inJan[,"Days"])
#[1] 50
#Can someone tell my why the aggregate function thinks the arguments are a
different length?
#### End of code
Thank you,
John
John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine;
Associate Director for Biostatistics and Informatics, Baltimore VA Medical
Center Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center;
Former PI Biostatistics and Informatics Core, University of Maryland School of
Medicine Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center;
Senior Statistician University of Maryland Center for Vascular Research;
Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine,
10 North Greene Street
GRECC (BT/18/GR)
Baltimore, MD 21201-1524
Cell phone 443-418-5382
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