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# NOTE this notebook can be run manually or automatically by {targets}
# So load the packages required by this notebook here
# rather than relying on _targets.R to load them.

# Set up the project environment, because {workflowr} knits each Rmd file 
# in a new R session, and doesn't execute the project .Rprofile

library(targets) # access data from the targets cache

library(tictoc) # capture execution time
library(here) # construct file paths relative to project root
here() starts at /home/ross/RG/projects/academic/entity_resolution/fa_sim_cal_TOP/fa_sim_cal
library(fs) # file system operations
library(dplyr) # data wrangling

Attaching package: 'dplyr'
The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':

    filter, lag
The following objects are masked from 'package:base':

    intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
library(gt) # table formatting
library(stringr) # string matching
library(vroom) # fast reading of delimited text files
library(lubridate) # date parsing

Attaching package: 'lubridate'
The following objects are masked from 'package:base':

    date, intersect, setdiff, union
# start the execution time clock
tictoc::tic("Computation time (excl. render)")

# Get the path to the raw entity data file
# This is a target managed by {targets}
f_entity_raw_tsv <- tar_read(c_raw_entity_data_file)

1 Introduction

These meta notebooks document the development of functions that will be applied in the core pipeline.

The aim of the m_01 set of meta notebooks is to work out how to read the raw entity data, drop excluded cases, discard irrelevant variables, apply any cleaning, and construct standardised names. This does not include construction of any modelling features. To be clear, the target (c_raw_entity_data) corresponding to the objective of this set of notebooks is the cleaned and standardised raw data, before constructing any modelling features.

This notebook documents the process of parsing the dates from character strings. This is necessary because the subsequent analyses need dates rather than strings that look like dates.

The subsequent notebooks in this set will develop the other functions needed to generate the cleaned and standardised data.

2 Read entity data

Read the raw entity data file, drop the excluded rows, and drop the variables with no variation using the previously defined core pipeline functions, raw_entity_data_read(), raw_entity_data_excl_status(), raw_entity_data_excl_test(), and raw_entity_data_drop_novar().

# Show the data file name
fs::path_file(f_entity_raw_tsv)
[1] "VR_20051125.txt.xz"
d <- raw_entity_data_read(f_entity_raw_tsv) %>% 
  raw_entity_data_excl_status() %>% 
  raw_entity_data_excl_test() %>% 
  raw_entity_data_drop_novar()

dim(d)
[1] 4099699      25

3 Dates

Show some values for all the date columns.

d %>% 
  dplyr::select(ends_with("_dt")) %>% 
  dplyr::group_by(is.na(cancellation_dt)) %>% 
  dplyr::slice_sample(n = 10) %>% 
  dplyr::ungroup() %>% 
  dplyr::select(-starts_with("is.na")) %>% 
  gt::gt() %>% 
  gt::opt_row_striping() %>% 
  gt::tab_style(style = gt::cell_text(weight = "bold"), locations = gt::cells_column_labels()) %>% 
  gt::fmt_missing(columns = everything(), missing_text = "<NA>")
registr_dt cancellation_dt
1982-09-24 00:00:00 1996-12-20 00:00:00
1997-01-16 00:00:00 1997-01-29 00:00:00
1997-01-22 00:00:00 1997-01-23 00:00:00
1988-10-03 00:00:00 1997-01-16 00:00:00
1996-09-26 00:00:00 1997-01-13 00:00:00
1996-12-30 00:00:00 1997-01-09 00:00:00
1996-09-20 00:00:00 1997-01-08 00:00:00
1996-10-10 00:00:00 1997-01-27 00:00:00
1983-10-10 00:00:00 1996-08-06 00:00:00
1996-05-06 00:00:00 1997-02-20 00:00:00
2002-10-08 17:08:00 <NA>
1998-07-29 00:00:00 <NA>
2004-12-28 00:00:00 <NA>
1984-08-29 00:00:00 <NA>
2004-02-24 00:00:00 <NA>
1966-10-12 00:00:00 <NA>
1984-10-08 00:00:00 <NA>
2004-05-19 00:00:00 <NA>
2004-07-26 00:00:00 <NA>
1956-01-01 00:00:00 <NA>

Write a function to parse the date columns. We only need the date component of each date-time.

# Function to parse the date strings in the raw entity data
raw_entity_data_parse_dates <- function(
  d # data frame - raw entity data
) {
  d %>%
    dplyr::mutate( # convert the datetime cols to dates
      registr_dt      = lubridate::as_date(registr_dt),
      cancellation_dt = lubridate::as_date(cancellation_dt)
    )
}

Test to see if all the dates are parsed and that missing strings map to missing dates.

# get just the character date columns
d_char <- d %>% 
    dplyr::select(ends_with("_dt"))

# parse the date columns
d_date <- d_char %>% 
  raw_entity_data_parse_dates()

# check that the missing values are identically located in both frames
all( is.na(d_char) == is.na(d_date) )
[1] TRUE
  • All missing values are identically located in both frames, so:

    • All nonmissing strings were successfully parsed (otherwise they would be present in d_char and missing in d_date)
    • Missing character strings become missing dates

Timing

Computation time (excl. render): 84.634 sec elapsed

sessionInfo()
R version 4.1.0 (2021-05-18)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 20.10

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3.9.0
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.9.0

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_AU.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_AU.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_AU.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_AU.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base     

other attached packages:
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