Generating group id column in DataFrames?

Raymond · July 5, 2022, 10:01am

Here is an example data.

julia> b = DataFrame(city = ["BJ", "BJ", "BJ", "HF", "HF", "TS", "TS"], year = [1990, 1991, 1992, 1990, 1991, 1990, 1991], cpi = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 2, 1])
7×3 DataFrame
 Row │ city    year   cpi
     │ String  Int64  Int64
─────┼──────────────────────
   1 │ BJ       1990      1
   2 │ BJ       1991      2
   3 │ BJ       1992      3
   4 │ HF       1990      4
   5 │ HF       1991      5
   6 │ TS       1990      2
   7 │ TS       1991      1

In Stata, we can generate the group variable

egen id = group(city）

How can I generate id in Julia?

Raymond · July 5, 2022, 10:08am

Here is my solution,

julia> gd = groupby(b, :city);
julia> insertcols!(b, 1, :id => gd.groups)
7×4 DataFrame
 Row │ id     city    year   cpi
     │ Int64  String  Int64  Int64
─────┼─────────────────────────────
   1 │     1  BJ       1990      1
   2 │     1  BJ       1991      2
   3 │     1  BJ       1992      3
   4 │     2  HF       1990      4
   5 │     2  HF       1991      5
   6 │     3  TS       1990      2
   7 │     3  TS       1991      1

Anyone has another solution to this problem?

rafael.guerra · July 5, 2022, 11:41am

Another way:

b.id = groupby(b, :city).groups

nalimilan · July 5, 2022, 12:45pm

The groups field is internal (and undocumented). Better use the groupindices function, via transform!(groupby(df, :year), groupindices => :id) or df.id = groupindices(groupby(df, :year)).

rafael.guerra · July 5, 2022, 12:50pm

The second option you provided works well but not this one quoted.
Could you please confirm?

nalimilan · July 5, 2022, 1:07pm

It works here. What error do you get?

Raymond · July 5, 2022, 1:33pm

Thanks very much. This is what I want. This answer is what I am waiting for. Because sometimes we may transform the dataframe and then want to generate id.

julia> df
7×4 DataFrame
 Row │ city    year   cpi    id
     │ String  Int64  Int64  Int64?
─────┼──────────────────────────────
   1 │ BJ       1992      3       1
   2 │ BJ       1991      2       1
   3 │ HF       1991      5       2
   4 │ TS       1991      1       3
   5 │ BJ       1990      1       1
   6 │ HF       1990      4       2
   7 │ TS       1990      2       3

julia> gd = groupby(df, :city)
GroupedDataFrame with 3 groups based on key: city
First Group (3 rows): city = "BJ"
 Row │ city    year   cpi    id
     │ String  Int64  Int64  Int64?
─────┼──────────────────────────────
   1 │ BJ       1992      3       1
   2 │ BJ       1991      2       1
   3 │ BJ       1990      1       1
⋮
Last Group (2 rows): city = "TS"
 Row │ city    year   cpi    id
     │ String  Int64  Int64  Int64?
─────┼──────────────────────────────
   1 │ TS       1991      1       3
   2 │ TS       1990      2       3

julia> sort!(df, :year)
7×4 DataFrame
 Row │ city    year   cpi    id
     │ String  Int64  Int64  Int64?
─────┼──────────────────────────────
   1 │ BJ       1990      1       1
   2 │ HF       1990      4       2
   3 │ TS       1990      2       3
   4 │ BJ       1991      2       1
   5 │ HF       1991      5       2
   6 │ TS       1991      1       3
   7 │ BJ       1992      3       1

julia> df.id = groupindices(groupby(df, :city))
7-element Vector{Union{Missing, Int64}}:
 1
 2
 3
 1
 2
 3
 1

julia> df
7×4 DataFrame
 Row │ city    year   cpi    id
     │ String  Int64  Int64  Int64?
─────┼──────────────────────────────
   1 │ BJ       1990      1       1
   2 │ HF       1990      4       2
   3 │ TS       1990      2       3
   4 │ BJ       1991      2       1
   5 │ HF       1991      5       2
   6 │ TS       1991      1       3
   7 │ BJ       1992      3       1

Raymond · July 5, 2022, 1:33pm

Perfect. Thanks.

Raymond · July 5, 2022, 1:48pm

but this solution does not work

julia> transform!(groupby(df, :city), groupindices => :id)
ERROR: ArgumentError: Unrecognized column selector: DataFrames.groupindices => :id
Stacktrace:
 [1] normalize_selection(idx::DataFrames.Index, sel::Any, renamecols::Bool)
   @ DataFrames ~/.julia/packages/DataFrames/zqFGs/src/abstractdataframe/selection.jl:339
 [2] _combine_prepare_norm(gd::GroupedDataFrame{DataFrame}, cs_vec::Vector{Any}, keepkeys::Bool, ungroup::Bool, copycols::Bool, keeprows::Bool, renamecols::Bool)
   @ DataFrames ~/.julia/packages/DataFrames/zqFGs/src/groupeddataframe/splitapplycombine.jl:68
 [3] _combine_prepare(gd::GroupedDataFrame{DataFrame}, ::Base.RefValue{Any}; keepkeys::Bool, ungroup::Bool, copycols::Bool, keeprows::Bool, renamecols::Bool)
   @ DataFrames ~/.julia/packages/DataFrames/zqFGs/src/groupeddataframe/splitapplycombine.jl:50
 [4] select(::GroupedDataFrame{DataFrame}, ::Union{Regex, AbstractString, Function, Signed, Symbol, Unsigned, Pair, Type, All, Between, Cols, InvertedIndex, AbstractVecOrMat}, ::Vararg{Union{Regex, AbstractString, Function, Signed, Symbol, Unsigned, Pair, Type, All, Between, Cols, InvertedIndex, AbstractVecOrMat}}; copycols::Bool, keepkeys::Bool, ungroup::Bool, renamecols::Bool)
   @ DataFrames ~/.julia/packages/DataFrames/zqFGs/src/groupeddataframe/splitapplycombine.jl:725
 [5] transform!(gd::GroupedDataFrame{DataFrame}, args::Union{Regex, AbstractString, Function, Signed, Symbol, Unsigned, Pair, Type, All, Between, Cols, InvertedIndex, AbstractVecOrMat}; ungroup::Bool, renamecols::Bool)
   @ DataFrames ~/.julia/packages/DataFrames/zqFGs/src/groupeddataframe/splitapplycombine.jl:784
 [6] transform!(gd::GroupedDataFrame{DataFrame}, args::Union{Regex, AbstractString, Function, Signed, Symbol, Unsigned, Pair, Type, All, Between, Cols, InvertedIndex, AbstractVecOrMat})
   @ DataFrames ~/.julia/packages/DataFrames/zqFGs/src/groupeddataframe/splitapplycombine.jl:782
 [7] top-level scope
   @ REPL[313]:1

caused by: MethodError: no method matching getindex(::DataFrames.Index, ::Pair{typeof(groupindices), Symbol})
Closest candidates are:
  getindex(::DataFrames.AbstractIndex, ::InvertedIndex) at ~/.julia/packages/DataFrames/zqFGs/src/other/index.jl:224
  getindex(::DataFrames.AbstractIndex, ::All) at ~/.julia/packages/DataFrames/zqFGs/src/other/index.jl:227
  getindex(::DataFrames.AbstractIndex, ::AbstractRange{Int64}) at ~/.julia/packages/DataFrames/zqFGs/src/other/index.jl:208
  ...
Stacktrace:
 [1] normalize_selection(idx::DataFrames.Index, sel::Any, renamecols::Bool)
   @ DataFrames ~/.julia/packages/DataFrames/zqFGs/src/abstractdataframe/selection.jl:336
 [2] _combine_prepare_norm(gd::GroupedDataFrame{DataFrame}, cs_vec::Vector{Any}, keepkeys::Bool, ungroup::Bool, copycols::Bool, keeprows::Bool, renamecols::Bool)
   @ DataFrames ~/.julia/packages/DataFrames/zqFGs/src/groupeddataframe/splitapplycombine.jl:68
 [3] _combine_prepare(gd::GroupedDataFrame{DataFrame}, ::Base.RefValue{Any}; keepkeys::Bool, ungroup::Bool, copycols::Bool, keeprows::Bool, renamecols::Bool)
   @ DataFrames ~/.julia/packages/DataFrames/zqFGs/src/groupeddataframe/splitapplycombine.jl:50
 [4] select(::GroupedDataFrame{DataFrame}, ::Union{Regex, AbstractString, Function, Signed, Symbol, Unsigned, Pair, Type, All, Between, Cols, InvertedIndex, AbstractVecOrMat}, ::Vararg{Union{Regex, AbstractString, Function, Signed, Symbol, Unsigned, Pair, Type, All, Between, Cols, InvertedIndex, AbstractVecOrMat}}; copycols::Bool, keepkeys::Bool, ungroup::Bool, renamecols::Bool)
   @ DataFrames ~/.julia/packages/DataFrames/zqFGs/src/groupeddataframe/splitapplycombine.jl:725
 [5] transform!(gd::GroupedDataFrame{DataFrame}, args::Union{Regex, AbstractString, Function, Signed, Symbol, Unsigned, Pair, Type, All, Between, Cols, InvertedIndex, AbstractVecOrMat}; ungroup::Bool, renamecols::Bool)
   @ DataFrames ~/.julia/packages/DataFrames/zqFGs/src/groupeddataframe/splitapplycombine.jl:784
 [6] transform!(gd::GroupedDataFrame{DataFrame}, args::Union{Regex, AbstractString, Function, Signed, Symbol, Unsigned, Pair, Type, All, Between, Cols, InvertedIndex, AbstractVecOrMat})
   @ DataFrames ~/.julia/packages/DataFrames/zqFGs/src/groupeddataframe/splitapplycombine.jl:782
 [7] top-level scope
   @ REPL[313]:1

Raymond · July 5, 2022, 1:52pm

Why doesn’t this code work?

@transform! df :id = groupindices(groupby(df, :city))

pdeffebach · July 5, 2022, 1:57pm

What version of DataFrames are you on?

pdeffebach · July 5, 2022, 2:00pm

This doesn’t work because here :city is pared as the column city, so it’s equivalent to calling

groupby(df, ["BJ", "BJ", "BJ", "HF", "HF", "TS", "TS"])

For proper escaping rules here, do

julia> @transform! df :id = groupindices(groupby(df, ^(:city)))
7×4 DataFrame
 Row │ city    year   cpi    id     
     │ String  Int64  Int64  Int64? 
─────┼──────────────────────────────
   1 │ BJ       1990      1       1
   2 │ BJ       1991      2       1
   3 │ BJ       1992      3       1
   4 │ HF       1990      4       2
   5 │ HF       1991      5       2
   6 │ TS       1990      2       3
   7 │ TS       1991      1       3

See docs here.

Raymond · July 5, 2022, 2:13pm

(test) pkg> st
      Status `~/test/Project.toml`
  [a93c6f00] DataFrames v1.3.4
  [1313f7d8] DataFramesMeta v0.11.0
  [9d5cd8c9] FixedEffectModels v1.6.3
  [612083be] Queryverse v0.7.0
  [ce6b1742] RDatasets v0.7.7
  [d519eb52] RegressionTables v0.5.4
  [bd369af6] Tables v1.7.0

rafael.guerra · July 5, 2022, 2:20pm

I am getting the same error message as Raymond got here.

versioninfo()

(@v1.7) pkg> st DataFrames
      Status `C:\Users\jrafa\.julia\environments\v1.7\Project.toml`
  [a93c6f00] DataFrames v1.3.4

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.7.3
Commit 742b9abb4d (2022-05-06 12:58 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-12.0.1 (ORCJIT, icelake-client)
Environment:
  JULIA_PKG_USE_CLI_GIT = true
  JULIA_STACKFRAME_FUNCTION_COLOR = blue
  JULIA_WARN_COLOR = cyan
  JULIA_EDITOR = code.cmd -g
  JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 8

Raymond · July 5, 2022, 2:23pm

I run the example in doc, but gets error.

(test) pkg> st
      Status `~/test/Project.toml`
  [a93c6f00] DataFrames v1.3.4
  [1313f7d8] DataFramesMeta v0.11.0
  [9d5cd8c9] FixedEffectModels v1.6.3
  [612083be] Queryverse v0.7.0
  [ce6b1742] RDatasets v0.7.7
  [d519eb52] RegressionTables v0.5.4
  [bd369af6] Tables v1.7.0

julia> df = DataFrame(x = [1, 1, 2, 2], y = [1, 2, 101, 102]);

julia> @select(df, :x2 = :x, :x3 = ^(:x))
ERROR: MethodError: no method matching ^(::Vector{Int64})
Closest candidates are:
  ^(::Union{AbstractChar, AbstractString}, ::Integer) at /Applications/Julia-1.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/base/strings/basic.jl:721
  ^(::Rational, ::Integer) at /Applications/Julia-1.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/base/rational.jl:475
  ^(::Number, ::Missing) at /Applications/Julia-1.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/base/missing.jl:124

pdeffebach · July 5, 2022, 2:24pm

Yikes. Please file an issue so I can track it

nalimilan · July 5, 2022, 2:38pm

Ah sorry this has been fixed on master (soon to be 1.4.0) but it still fails on 1.3.4.

rocco_sprmnt21 · July 19, 2022, 9:42pm


df = DataFrame(city = ["BJ", "BJ", "BJ", "HF", "HF", "TS", "TS"], 
year = [1990, 1991, 1992, 1990, 1991, 1990, 1991], cpi = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 2, 1])

# groupindices(groupby(df,:city))

grp=groupby(df,:city)

vcat(grp..., source="groupid")

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