Given I have time ranges with a start and an end date, I can easily determine if a specific date falls in this time range. How can we determine if a specific month/day combination lies in a time range, independent from its year.
Given I would like to know whether any first of July (07-01) lies in a time range.
2020-01-30 - 2020-06-15 --> NO
2020-06-16 - 2021-03-20 --> YES
2013-04-26 - 2019-02-13 --> YES (multiple)
# set seed for sampling
set.seed(1)
# number of time ranges
cases <- 10
# time gaps in days
gaps <- sort(sample(x = 1:5000, size = cases, replace = TRUE))
# data frame with time ranges
df <- data.frame(dates_start = rev(Sys.Date() - gaps[2:cases] + 1),
dates_end = rev(Sys.Date() - gaps[1:(cases-1)]))
df
#> dates_start dates_end
#> 1 2009-06-26 2010-01-19
#> 2 2010-01-20 2011-06-05
#> 3 2011-06-06 2011-06-20
#> 4 2011-06-21 2013-04-21
#> 5 2013-04-22 2016-02-17
#> 6 2016-02-18 2016-08-05
#> 7 2016-08-06 2018-05-11
#> 8 2018-05-12 2019-10-09
#> 9 2019-10-10 2021-10-25
# Is specific date in date range
df$date_in_range <- df$dates_start <= lubridate::ymd("2019-07-01") &
lubridate::ymd("2019-07-01") < df$dates_end
# specific day of a month in date range
# pseudo code
data.table::between(x = month_day("07-01"),
lower = dates_start,
upper = dates_end)
#> Error in month_day("07-01"): could not find function "month_day"
# expected output
df$monthday_in_range <- c(T, T, F, T, T, T, T, T, T)
df
#> dates_start dates_end date_in_range monthday_in_range
#> 1 2009-06-26 2010-01-19 FALSE TRUE
#> 2 2010-01-20 2011-06-05 FALSE TRUE
#> 3 2011-06-06 2011-06-20 FALSE FALSE
#> 4 2011-06-21 2013-04-21 FALSE TRUE
#> 5 2013-04-22 2016-02-17 FALSE TRUE
#> 6 2016-02-18 2016-08-05 FALSE TRUE
#> 7 2016-08-06 2018-05-11 FALSE TRUE
#> 8 2018-05-12 2019-10-09 TRUE TRUE
#> 9 2019-10-10 2021-10-25 FALSE TRUE
md_in_interval <- function(md, start, end) {
# does the interval cover more than a full year?
# Then any date will fall in this interval and hence the result is TRUE
helper <- (lubridate::year(end) - lubridate::year(start)) > 1
# lubridate time interval
interval <- lubridate::interval(dates_start, dates_end)
# helper dates with month/day combination and start year
my_date1 <- lubridate::mdy(paste0(md, lubridate::year(start)))
# helper dates with month/day combination and end year
my_date2 <- lubridate::mdy(paste0(md, lubridate::year(end)))
# check if month/day combination falls within the interval
out <- my_date1 %within% interval |
my_date2 %within% interval |
helper
return(out)
}
library(data.table)
dt <- data.table::as.data.table(df)
dt[, isin := md_in_interval("06-05", dates_start, dates_end)][]
To overcome the issue with when there are more than one year span we could use a helper column:
df %>%
mutate(across(, ymd),
helper = ifelse(year(dates_end) - year(dates_start) > 1, 1, 0),
interval = interval(dates_start, dates_end)) %>%
mutate(my_date1 = mdy(paste0("07-01-",year(dates_start))),
my_date2 = mdy(paste0("07-01-",year(dates_end)))) %>%
mutate(check = my_date1 %within% interval | my_date2 %within% interval | helper == 1) %>%
select(1,2,7)
dates_start dates_end check
1 2009-06-26 2010-01-19 TRUE
2 2010-01-20 2011-06-05 TRUE
3 2011-06-06 2011-06-20 FALSE
4 2011-06-21 2013-04-21 TRUE
5 2013-04-22 2016-02-17 TRUE
6 2016-02-18 2016-08-05 TRUE
7 2016-08-06 2018-05-11 TRUE
8 2018-05-12 2019-10-09 TRUE
9 2019-10-10 2021-10-25 TRUE
First answer:
We could use lubridate for this.
We create an interval with interval then we
we check with %within% wether the day is in interval or not.
Before we have to create a month-day-year of 07-01 element. We do this with mdy(paste0("07-01-",year(dates_start)))
library(dplyr)
library(lubridate)
df %>%
mutate(across(, ymd),
interval = interval(dates_start, dates_end)) %>%
mutate(my_date = mdy(paste0("07-01-",year(dates_start)))) %>%
mutate(check = my_date %within% interval)
dates_start dates_end interval my_date check
1 2009-06-26 2010-01-19 2009-06-26 UTC--2010-01-19 UTC 2009-07-01 TRUE
2 2010-01-20 2011-06-05 2010-01-20 UTC--2011-06-05 UTC 2010-07-01 TRUE
3 2011-06-06 2011-06-20 2011-06-06 UTC--2011-06-20 UTC 2011-07-01 FALSE
4 2011-06-21 2013-04-21 2011-06-21 UTC--2013-04-21 UTC 2011-07-01 TRUE
5 2013-04-22 2016-02-17 2013-04-22 UTC--2016-02-17 UTC 2013-07-01 TRUE
6 2016-02-18 2016-08-05 2016-02-18 UTC--2016-08-05 UTC 2016-07-01 TRUE
7 2016-08-06 2018-05-11 2016-08-06 UTC--2018-05-11 UTC 2016-07-01 FALSE
8 2018-05-12 2019-10-09 2018-05-12 UTC--2019-10-09 UTC 2018-07-01 TRUE
9 2019-10-10 2021-10-25 2019-10-10 UTC--2021-10-25 UTC 2019-07-01 FALSE