Rnadom sampling one row within each id using R

October 21, 2022

I made a data like this:

data<-data.frame(id=c(1,1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4),
                 yearmonthweek=c(2012052,2012053,2012061,2012062,2013031,2013052,2013053,2012052,
                                 2012053,2012054,2012071,2012073,2012074),
                 event=c(0,1,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0),
                 a=c(11,12,13,10,11,12,15,14,13,15,19,10,20))

id stands for personal id. yearmonthweek means year, month and week. I want to clean data by the following rules. First, find id that have at least one event. In this case id=1 and 2 have events and id=3 and 4 have no events. Secondly, pick a random row from an id that has events and pick a random row from an id that has no events. So, the number of rows should be same as the number of id. My expected output looks like this:

data<-data.frame(id=c(1,2,3,4),
                 yearmonthweek=c(2012053,2013052,2012052,2012073),
                 event=c(1,1,0,0),
                 a=c(12,12,14,10))

Since I use random sampling, the values can be different as above, but there should be 4 rows like this.

>Solution :

Here is an option

set.seed(2022)
data %>%
    group_by(id) %>%
    mutate(has_event = any(event == 1)) %>%
    filter(if_else(has_event, event == 1, event == 0)) %>%
    slice_sample(n = 1) %>%
    select(-has_event) %>%
    ungroup()
## A tibble: 4 × 4
#     id yearmonthweek event     a
#  <dbl>         <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
#1     1       2012061     1    13
#2     2       2013052     1    12
#3     3       2012053     0    13
#4     4       2012074     0    20

Explanation: Group by id, flag if a group has at least one event; if it does, only keep those rows where event == 1; then uniform-randomly select a single row using slice_sample per group.