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Turn a time-point column into intervals

I have a tibble storing time-point data:

data.frame(Time = c(0, 1, 2, 3, 4), readings = c(123, 234, 145, 234, 121))

and I would like to turn it into a table like the following:

From To Initial End
0 1 123 234
1 2 234 145
2 3 145 234
3 4 234 121
... ... ... ...

I prefer to accomplish it in R/ tidyverse, but if python can do it in a much simpler way, I can also adopt some python codes. Thanks!

Solution

  • Does this work:

    library(dplyr)

df %>% mutate(To = lead(Time), End = lead(readings)) %>% 
       select('From' = Time, To, 'Initial' = readings, End)
  From To Initial End
1    0  1     123 234
2    1  2     234 145
3    2  3     145 234
4    3  4     234 121