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I'm very very new to R and am looking at ways of recreating an Excel VBA macro and Excel worksheet functions such as SUMIFS. SUMIFS sums a column if the row has entries matching multiple conditions on its other columns.

I have the below data frame and I want to compute a new column. The new column is the sum of Sample for all rows that overlap with the Start Date and EndDate range. For example on line 1 it would be 697 (the sum of the first 3 lines). The criteria for the sum specifically: include Sample if EndDate >= StartDate[i] & StartDate <=EndDate[i]

 StartDate   EndDate    Sample  *SUMIFS example*
 10/01/14   24/01/14    139         *697*
 12/01/14   26/01/14    136 
 19/01/14   02/02/14    422 
 25/01/14   08/02/14    762 
 29/01/14   12/02/14    899 
 05/02/14   19/02/14    850 
 07/02/14   21/02/14    602 
 09/02/14   23/02/14    180 
 18/02/14   04/03/14    866

Any comments or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

vpipkt
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You could use lapply/sapply from base R to do this. x from @cameron.bracken's post. 

x$sumifs <- sapply(seq_len(nrow(x)), function(i) with(x, 
             sum(Sample[EndDate >= StartDate[i] & StartDate <= EndDate[i]])))

x
#   StartDate    EndDate Sample sumifs
#1 2014-01-10 2014-01-24    139    697
#2 2014-01-12 2014-01-26    136   1459
#3 2014-01-19 2014-02-02    422   2358
#4 2014-01-25 2014-02-08    762   3671
#5 2014-01-29 2014-02-12    899   3715
#6 2014-02-05 2014-02-19    850   4159
#7 2014-02-07 2014-02-21    602   4159
#8 2014-02-09 2014-02-23    180   3397
#9 2014-02-18 2014-03-04    866   2498
akrun
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You could do this with a loop or with a Cartesian merge. I don't know of any built in functions to do exactly this. 

library(dplyr)

x = structure(list(StartDate = structure(c(1389312000, 1389484800, 
1390089600, 1390608000, 1390953600, 1391558400, 1391731200, 1391904000, 
1392681600), tzone = "UTC", class = c("POSIXct", "POSIXt")), 
    EndDate = structure(c(1390521600, 1390694400, 1391299200, 
    1391817600, 1392163200, 1392768000, 1392940800, 1393113600, 
    1393891200), tzone = "UTC", class = c("POSIXct", "POSIXt"
    )), Sample = c(139L, 136L, 422L, 762L, 899L, 850L, 602L, 
    180L, 866L)), .Names = c("StartDate", "EndDate", "Sample"
), row.names = c(NA, -9L), class = "data.frame")

x2 = x
names(x2)=c('StartDate2','EndDate2','Sample2')
x3 = merge(x,x2,allow.cartesian =T)
x4 = summarise(group_by(x3,StartDate,EndDate),
    sumifs=sum(Sample2[EndDate2 >= StartDate & StartDate2 <= EndDate]))
x_sumifs = merge(x,x4,by=c('StartDate','EndDate'))

This is what the output looks like.

> x_sumifs
   StartDate    EndDate Sample sumifs
1 2014-01-10 2014-01-24    139    697
2 2014-01-12 2014-01-26    136   1459
3 2014-01-19 2014-02-02    422   2358
4 2014-01-25 2014-02-08    762   3671
5 2014-01-29 2014-02-12    899   3715
6 2014-02-05 2014-02-19    850   4159
7 2014-02-07 2014-02-21    602   4159
8 2014-02-09 2014-02-23    180   3397
9 2014-02-18 2014-03-04    866   2498
cameron.bracken
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Assuming you have the above data in a data frame called df:

sum(df$Sample[EndDate >= df$StartDate & StartDate <= df$EndDate])

That is:

  • df$Sample[...] selects the Sample column, with conditions specified in [...]
  • EndDate >= df$StartDate and StartDate <= df$EndDate are from your example, converted to R conditions, with & in between to require both conditions to be true at the same time. Notice that there are no i indexes in the expression. That's how it works in R, the expression is evaluated for each row in the data frame, and the result of df$Sample[...] is a vector of values, only the values where the expression in [...] was true
  • sum is of course a built-in function to calculate the sum, naturally
janos
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  • This does not give what the OP wanted, for each row he want to look at all other rows and sum up the sample column if it meets the criteria. – cameron.bracken Nov 03 '14 at 20:54
  • Thanks very much, but as Cameron mentioned, this doesn't quite do what I was hoping (although he sums it up perfectly). I appreciate the help. – Barnaby1 Nov 03 '14 at 21:51
  • think you meant `sum(df$Sample[df$EndDate >= df$StartDate & df$StartDate <= df$EndDate])` – Nettle Mar 18 '18 at 23:33
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You can use the 'by' function to get the value. In 'by' data frame is split by row into data frames subsetted by the values of one or more factors, and a function is applied to each subset in turn.

x$sumifs <- by(Sample[EndDate >= StartDate[i] & StartDate <= EndDate[i]],sum)

More details about the function can be found here

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