is there an R function for pooling data by rows?

Question

I'm fairly new to R and I've been struggling with how to make this work:

I'm looking to pool the population numbers across several years (to match a smaller pooled dataset). So instead of having yearly population data, I would combine rows in "three-year" intervals and take an average (eg. (2007+2008+2009)/3). This would be done for all regions (columns).

My current dataframe:

year	CAN	ONT	AL	BC	atlantic	mansask
2007	32887928	12764195	3514031	4290988	2327238	2191414
2008	33245773	12882625	3595755	4349412	2333027	2215120
2009	33628571	12997687	3679092	4410679	2344786	2243371
2010	34005274	13135063	3732573	4465924	2358767	2272355
2011	34342780	13263544	3790191	4499139	2369074	2300077
2012	34750545	13413702	3880755	4546290	2373250	2336283
2013	35152370	13555754	3997950	4590081	2371356	2370413
2014	35535348	13680425	4108416	4646462	2371210	2401551
2015	35832513	13789597	4177527	4694699	2371095	2426572
2016	36264604	13976320	4236376	4757658	2385779	2466703

My ideal transformation (I didn't rework the numbers in this example):

year	CAN	ONT	AL	BC	atlantic	mansask
2007-2009	32887928	12764195	3514031	4290988	2327238	2191414
2010-2012	33245773	12882625	3595755	4349412	2333027	2215120
2013-2015	33628571	12997687	3679092	4410679	2344786	2243371
2016-2018	34005274	13135063	3732573	4465924	2358767	2272355

Thanks in advance for any advice/help!

dcsuka · Accepted Answer · 2022-07-22T04:27:50.427

Some simple dpylr work does the trick. Let me know if this works:

library(dplyr)
library(tibble)

tibble::tribble(
  ~year,      ~CAN,      ~ONT,      ~AL,      ~BC, ~atlantic, ~mansask,
  2007L, 32887928L, 12764195L, 3514031L, 4290988L,  2327238L, 2191414L,
  2008L, 33245773L, 12882625L, 3595755L, 4349412L,  2333027L, 2215120L,
  2009L, 33628571L, 12997687L, 3679092L, 4410679L,  2344786L, 2243371L,
  2010L, 34005274L, 13135063L, 3732573L, 4465924L,  2358767L, 2272355L,
  2011L, 34342780L, 13263544L, 3790191L, 4499139L,  2369074L, 2300077L,
  2012L, 34750545L, 13413702L, 3880755L, 4546290L,  2373250L, 2336283L,
  2013L, 35152370L, 13555754L, 3997950L, 4590081L,  2371356L, 2370413L,
  2014L, 35535348L, 13680425L, 4108416L, 4646462L,  2371210L, 2401551L,
  2015L, 35832513L, 13789597L, 4177527L, 4694699L,  2371095L, 2426572L,
  2016L, 36264604L, 13976320L, 4236376L, 4757658L,  2385779L, 2466703L
  ) %>%
  group_by(row_num = row_number() %/% 3.1) %>%
  summarise(across(!starts_with("year"), mean),
            year = paste(first(year), last(year), sep = "-")) %>%
  select(year, everything(), -row_num)

# # A tibble: 4 × 7
#   year            CAN       ONT       AL       BC atlantic mansask
#   <chr>         <dbl>     <dbl>    <dbl>    <dbl>    <dbl>   <dbl>
# 1 2007-2009 33254091. 12881502. 3596293. 4350360. 2335017  2216635
# 2 2010-2012 34366200. 13270770. 3801173  4503784. 2367030. 2302905
# 3 2013-2015 35506744. 13675259. 4094631  4643747. 2371220. 2399512
# 4 2016-2016 36264604  13976320  4236376  4757658  2385779  2466703

is there an R function for pooling data by rows?

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