Table won't sort?

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Rachel McLaughlin
Rachel McLaughlin 2016년 5월 4일
댓글: Guillaume 2016년 5월 5일
Hello all,
I have a table that is the product of this function: Day =varfun(@sum,Table,'InputVariables','Rain_mm','GroupingVariables',{'Month' 'Day' 'Year'});
The output is a table where the date is split into three columns (Day, Month, Year) and one column is the summed rain per day (sum_Rain_mm)
The problem I am having is that the output table 'Day' looks like this:
Day Month Year GroupCount sum_Rain_mm
___ _____ ____ __________ ___________
1_1_2016 1 1 2016 48 NaN
1_7_2015 1 7 2015 48 0
1_8_2015 1 8 2015 48 0
1_9_2015 1 9 2015 48 0.2
1_10_2015 1 10 2015 48 NaN
1_11_2015 1 11 2015 48 NaN
1_12_2015 1 12 2015 48 NaN
2_1_2016 2 1 2016 48 NaN
2_7_2015 2 7 2015 48 0
2_8_2015 2 8 2015 48 0
2_9_2015 2 9 2015 48 0
2_10_2015 2 10 2015 48 NaN
2_11_2015 2 11 2015 48 NaN
2_12_2015 2 12 2015 48 NaN
3_1_2016 3 1 2016 48 NaN
3_7_2015 3 7 2015 48 0
So the datestamps and totaled rain values are not in chronological order. When I try to make a plot of the rain data then against the time span (in days), the values are all out of order.
I cannot seem to get this output table to sort such that the data is chronological. I have tried:
Day = sortrows(Day, {'Day' ,'Month', 'Year'})
But it doesn't work. Any suggestions?
Thanks
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Stephen23
Stephen23 2016년 5월 4일
편집: Stephen23 2016년 5월 4일
The simplest solution is to use ISO 8601 date format timestamps, because all ISO 8601 dates sort into chronological order without any extra work, just a standard sort:
yyyy-mm-dd
No splitting, converting to numeric, sorting of columns, or any mucking around with date functions is required to get the correct chronological order. Simply pick the only reliable date format in the world and your problem would be resolved:

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Guillaume
Guillaume 2016년 5월 4일
1) The columns of your table appear to be mislabeled since the Year appear to be months (or is it days), the Month column appears to be days and the Year column appears to be everything. That's down to the way you created the original table in the first place.
2) The name of the table is not very good. DailyRain may be better
3) What is the type of the Year column? To find out see the output of
summary(Day)
Is it a cell array of strings, or a datetime array, or something else?
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Rachel McLaughlin
Rachel McLaughlin 2016년 5월 4일
Sorry, the alignment of the table headings was off when I copied it over. The Day/Month/Year headings do match up to the correct columns. The Year is a 213 x 1 double, as are the Day and Month.
Guillaume
Guillaume 2016년 5월 4일
Well then, it should be
Day = sortrows(Day, {'Year' ,'Month', 'Day'})
The order of the variable matters for sortrows.

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Star Strider
Star Strider 2016년 5월 4일
This is a bit less efficient than I’d like, but it has the virtue of working. I’m including the table creation as well so others won’t have to re-create that part of the code:
T = {'Day' 'Month' 'Year' 'Group' 'Count' 'sum_Rain_mm'
'1_1_2016' 1 1 2016 48 NaN
'1_7_2015' 1 7 2015 48 0
'1_8_2015' 1 8 2015 48 0
'1_9_2015' 1 9 2015 48 0.2
'1_10_2015' 1 10 2015 48 NaN
'1_11_2015' 1 11 2015 48 NaN
'1_12_2015' 1 12 2015 48 NaN
'2_1_2016' 2 1 2016 48 NaN
'2_7_2015' 2 7 2015 48 0
'2_8_2015' 2 8 2015 48 0
'2_9_2015' 2 9 2015 48 0
'2_10_2015' 2 10 2015 48 NaN
'2_11_2015' 2 11 2015 48 NaN
'2_12_2015' 2 12 2015 48 NaN
'3_1_2016' 3 1 2016 48 NaN
'3_7_2015' 3 7 2015 48 0};
Tbl1 = cell2table(T(2:end,:));
Tbl1.Properties.VariableNames = T(1,:);
Tbl_Dates = Tbl1.Day;
new_dates = regexp(Tbl_Dates, '\d*','match');
Dmtxc = cellfun(@(x)sprintf('%02s%02s%4s',x{:}), new_dates, 'Uni',0);
Tbl_DN = datenum(Dmtxc, 'ddmmyyyy');
[~,idx] = sort(Tbl_DN);
Tbl2 = Tbl1(idx,:)
Tbl2 =
Day Month Year Group Count sum_Rain_mm
___________ _____ ____ _____ _____ ___________
'1_7_2015' 1 7 2015 48 0
'2_7_2015' 2 7 2015 48 0
'3_7_2015' 3 7 2015 48 0
'1_8_2015' 1 8 2015 48 0
'2_8_2015' 2 8 2015 48 0
'1_9_2015' 1 9 2015 48 0.2
'2_9_2015' 2 9 2015 48 0
'1_10_2015' 1 10 2015 48 NaN
'2_10_2015' 2 10 2015 48 NaN
'1_11_2015' 1 11 2015 48 NaN
'2_11_2015' 2 11 2015 48 NaN
'1_12_2015' 1 12 2015 48 NaN
'2_12_2015' 2 12 2015 48 NaN
'1_1_2016' 1 1 2016 48 NaN
'2_1_2016' 2 1 2016 48 NaN
'3_1_2016' 3 1 2016 48 NaN

J. Webster
J. Webster 2016년 5월 4일
편집: J. Webster 2016년 5월 4일
One way to do this is to add another column in your table made up of datenums generated by your dates. Then sort your table based on that column.
myDatenums = datenum(Day{:,1}) %generate datenums from your first column
myNewTable = table(myDatenums); %make myDatenums into a table so you can concatenate it.
Day = [Day myNewTable] %append new column
Day = sortrows(Day,7); %sort table based on new column
Day(:,7) = []; %delete the new column
I learned a while ago to save dates as yyyymmdd to avoid problems like this.
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J. Webster
J. Webster 2016년 5월 4일
whatever
Guillaume
Guillaume 2016년 5월 5일
It's not 'whatever'. If you try to do anything complex with dates, you'll quickly run into issues with datenum that you won't have with datetime.
If you're giving advice, give advice that leads to good practice.

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