roll_scale: Rolling Scaling and Centering

In roll: Rolling and Expanding Statistics

Rolling Scaling and Centering

Description

A function for computing the rolling and expanding scaling and centering of time-series data.

Usage

roll_scale(x, width, weights = rep(1, width), center = TRUE,
  scale = TRUE, min_obs = width, complete_obs = FALSE,
  na_restore = FALSE, online = TRUE)

Arguments

x	vector or matrix. Rows are observations and columns are variables.
width	integer. Window size.
weights	vector. Weights for each observation within a window.
center	logical. If TRUE then the weighted mean of each variable is used, if FALSE then zero is used.
scale	logical. If TRUE then the weighted standard deviation of each variable is used, if FALSE then no scaling is done.
min_obs	integer. Minimum number of observations required to have a value within a window, otherwise result is NA.
complete_obs	logical. If TRUE then rows containing any missing values are removed, if FALSE then each value is used.
na_restore	logical. Should missing values be restored?
online	logical. Process observations using an online algorithm.

Details

If center is TRUE then centering is done by subtracting the weighted mean from each variable, if FALSE then zero is used. After centering, if scale is TRUE then scaling is done by dividing by the weighted standard deviation for each variable if center is TRUE, and the root mean square otherwise. If scale is FALSE then no scaling is done.

The denominator used gives an unbiased estimate of the standard deviation, so if the weights are the default then the divisor n - 1 is obtained.

Value

An object of the same class and dimension as x with the rolling and expanding scaling and centering.

Examples

n <- 15
x <- rnorm(n)
weights <- 0.9 ^ (n:1)

# rolling z-scores with complete windows
roll_scale(x, width = 5)

# rolling z-scores with partial windows
roll_scale(x, width = 5, min_obs = 1)

# expanding z-scores with partial windows
roll_scale(x, width = n, min_obs = 1)

# expanding z-scores with partial windows and weights
roll_scale(x, width = n, min_obs = 1, weights = weights)

roll documentation built on Aug. 22, 2025, 5:16 p.m.