我偶然发现了lubridate
包中的一个特殊行为:dmy(NA)
引发错误,而不是仅仅返回一个 NA。当我想转换一个包含一些元素为 NA 的列和一些通常可以毫无问题地转换的日期字符串时,这会给我带来问题。
这是最小的示例:
library(lubridate)
df <- data.frame(ID=letters[1:5],
Datum=c("01.01.1990", NA, "11.01.1990", NA, "01.02.1990"))
df_copy <- df
#Question 1: Why does dmy(NA) not return NA, but throws an error?
df$Datum <- dmy(df$Datum)
Error in function (..., sep = " ", collapse = NULL) : invalid separator
df <- df_copy
#Question 2: What's a work around?
#1. Idea: Only convert those elements that are not NAs
#RHS works, but assigning that to the LHS doesn't work (Most likely problem::
#column "Datum" is still of class factor, while the RHS is of class POSIXct)
df[!is.na(df$Datum), "Datum"] <- dmy(df[!is.na(df$Datum), "Datum"])
Using date format %d.%m.%Y.
Warning message:
In `[<-.factor`(`*tmp*`, iseq, value = c(NA_integer_, NA_integer_, :
invalid factor level, NAs generated
df #Only NAs, apparently problem with class of column "Datum"
ID Datum
1 a <NA>
2 b <NA>
3 c <NA>
4 d <NA>
5 e <NA>
df <- df_copy
#2. Idea: Use mapply and apply dmy only to those elements that are not NA
df[, "Datum"] <- mapply(function(x) {if (is.na(x)) {
return(NA)
} else {
return(dmy(x))
}}, df$Datum)
df #Meaningless numbers returned instead of date-objects
ID Datum
1 a 631152000
2 b NA
3 c 632016000
4 d NA
5 e 633830400
总而言之,我有两个问题:1)为什么 dmy(NA) 不起作用?基于大多数其他函数,我认为每次转换(例如 dmy())再次NA
返回NA
(就像那样2 + NA
)是一种很好的编程习惯?如果这种行为是有意的,我如何通过函数转换data.frame
包含NA
s的列dmy()
?