I have 3133 rows representing payments made on some of the 5296 days between 7/1/2000 and 12/31/2014; that is, the "Date" feature is non-continuous:
> head(d_exp_0014)
Year Month Day Amount Count myDate
1 2000 7 6 792078.6 9 2000-07-06
2 2000 7 7 140065.5 9 2000-07-07
3 2000 7 11 190553.2 9 2000-07-11
4 2000 7 12 119208.6 9 2000-07-12
5 2000 7 16 1068156.3 9 2000-07-16
6 2000 7 17 0.0 9 2000-07-17
I would like to fit a linear time trend variable,
t <- 1:3133
to a linear model explaining the variation in the Amount of the expenditure.
fit_t <- lm(Amount ~ t + Count, d_exp_0014)
However, this is obviously wrong, as t increments in different amounts between the dates:
> head(exp)
Year Month Day Amount Count Date t
1 2000 7 6 792078.6 9 2000-07-06 1
2 2000 7 7 140065.5 9 2000-07-07 2
3 2000 7 11 190553.2 9 2000-07-11 3
4 2000 7 12 119208.6 9 2000-07-12 4
5 2000 7 16 1068156.3 9 2000-07-16 5
6 2000 7 17 0.0 9 2000-07-17 6
Which to me is the exact opposite of a linear trend.
What is the most efficient way to get this data.frame merged to a continuous date-index? Will a date vector like
CTS_date_V <- as.data.frame(seq(as.Date("2000/07/01"), as.Date("2014/12/31"), "days"), colnames = "Date")
yield different results?
I'm open to any packages (using fpp, forecast, timeSeries, xts, ts, as of right now); just looking for a good answer to deploy in functional form, since these payments are going to be updated every week and I'd like to automate the append to this data.frame.
I think some kind of transformation to regular (continuous) time series is a good idea.
You can use xts to transform time series data (it is handy, because it can be used in other packages as regular ts)
# convert myDate to POSIXct if necessary
# create xts from data frame x
ts1 <- xts(data.frame(a = x$Amount, c = x$Count), x$myDate )
ts1
# create empty time series
ts_empty <- seq( from = start(ts1), to = end(ts1), by = "DSTday")
# merge the empty ts to the data and fill the gap with 0
ts2 <- merge( ts1, ts_empty, fill = 0)
# or interpolate, for example:
ts2 <- merge( ts1, ts_empty, fill = NA)
ts2 <- na.locf(ts2)
# zoo-xts ready functions are:
# na.locf - constant previous value
# na.approx - linear approximation
# na.spline - cubic spline interpolation
In your sample there is now sign of duplicated values. But based on a new question it is very likely. I think you want to aggregate values with sum function:
ts1 <- period.apply( ts1, endpoints(ts1,'days'), sum)