time_gaps: Gaps in a regular time sequence

In timeplyr: Fast Tidy Tools for Date and Date-Time Manipulation

Gaps in a regular time sequence

Description

time_gaps() checks for implicit missing gaps in time for any regular date or datetime sequence.

Usage

time_gaps(
  x,
  timespan = granularity(x),
  g = NULL,
  use.g.names = TRUE,
  check_time_regular = FALSE
)

time_num_gaps(
  x,
  timespan = granularity(x),
  g = NULL,
  use.g.names = TRUE,
  na.rm = TRUE,
  check_time_regular = FALSE
)

time_has_gaps(
  x,
  timespan = granularity(x),
  g = NULL,
  use.g.names = TRUE,
  na.rm = TRUE,
  check_time_regular = FALSE
)

Arguments

x	Time vector. E.g. a Date, POSIXt, numeric or any time-based vector.
timespan	timespan.
g	Grouping object passed directly to collapse::GRP(). This can for example be a vector or data frame.
use.g.names	Should the result include group names? Default is TRUE.
check_time_regular	Should the time vector be checked to see if it is regular (with or without gaps)? Default is FALSE.
na.rm	Should NA values be removed? Default is TRUE.

Details

When check_time_regular is TRUE, x is passed to time_is_regular, which checks that the time elapsed between successive values are in increasing order and are whole numbers. For more strict checks, see ?time_is_regular.

Value

time_gaps returns a vector of time gaps.
time_num_gaps returns the number of time gaps.
time_has_gaps returns a logical(1) of whether there are gaps.

Examples

library(timeplyr)
library(fastplyr)
library(lubridate)
library(nycflights13)
missing_dates(flights$time_hour)
time_has_gaps(flights$time_hour)
time_num_gaps(flights$time_hour)
length(time_gaps(flights$time_hour))
time_num_gaps(flights$time_hour, g = flights$origin)

# Number of missing hours by origin and dest
flights %>%
  f_group_by(origin, dest) %>%
  f_summarise(n_missing = time_num_gaps(time_hour, "hours"))

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