下面是一个简单的带有过滤器的函数，演示了一种方法来处理带有填充的开始和结束NAs，并使用自定义权重计算加权平均值(由过滤器支持):

wma <- function(x) { 
  wts <- c(seq(0.5, 4, 0.5), seq(3.5, 0.5, -0.5))
  nside <- (length(wts)-1)/2
  # pad x with begin and end values for filter to avoid NAs
  xp <- c(rep(first(x), nside), x, rep(last(x), nside)) 
  z <- stats::filter(xp, wts/sum(wts), sides = 2) %>% as.vector 
  z[(nside+1):(nside+length(x))]
}

您可以使用RcppRoll来实现用c++编写的快速移动平均线。只需调用roll_mean函数。文档可以在这里找到。

否则，这个(较慢的)for循环应该可以做到:

ma <- function(arr, n=15){
  res = arr
  for(i in n:length(arr)){
    res[i] = mean(arr[(i-n):i])
  }
  res
}

caTools包具有非常快速的滚动mean/min/max/sd和其他一些功能。我只使用过runmean和runsd，它们是迄今为止提到的其他包中最快的。

下面的示例代码展示了如何使用zoo包中的rollmean函数计算居中移动平均和尾随移动平均。

library(tidyverse)
library(zoo)

some_data = tibble(day = 1:10)
# cma = centered moving average
# tma = trailing moving average
some_data = some_data %>%
    mutate(cma = rollmean(day, k = 3, fill = NA)) %>%
    mutate(tma = rollmean(day, k = 3, fill = NA, align = "right"))
some_data
#> # A tibble: 10 x 3
#>      day   cma   tma
#>    <int> <dbl> <dbl>
#>  1     1    NA    NA
#>  2     2     2    NA
#>  3     3     3     2
#>  4     4     4     3
#>  5     5     5     4
#>  6     6     6     5
#>  7     7     7     6
#>  8     8     8     7
#>  9     9     9     8
#> 10    10    NA     9

或者你可以简单地计算它使用过滤器，这是我使用的函数:

ma <- function(x, n = 5){filter(x, rep(1 / n, n), sides = 2)}

如果使用dplyr，请注意在上面的函数中指定stats::filter。

编辑:非常喜欢添加侧参数，例如，一个日期向量的过去7天的移动平均值(或总和，或…)。

对于那些只想自己计算的人来说，它无非是:

# x = vector with numeric data
# w = window length
y <- numeric(length = length(x))

for (i in seq_len(length(x))) {
  ind <- c((i - floor(w / 2)):(i + floor(w / 2)))
  ind <- ind[ind %in% seq_len(length(x))]
  y[i] <- mean(x[ind])
}

y

但是让它独立于mean()会很有趣，所以你可以计算任何“移动”函数!

# our working horse:
moving_fn <- function(x, w, fun, ...) {
  # x = vector with numeric data
  # w = window length
  # fun = function to apply
  # side = side to take, (c)entre, (l)eft or (r)ight
  # ... = parameters passed on to 'fun'
  y <- numeric(length(x))
  for (i in seq_len(length(x))) {
    if (side %in% c("c", "centre", "center")) {
      ind <- c((i - floor(w / 2)):(i + floor(w / 2)))
    } else if (side %in% c("l", "left")) {
      ind <- c((i - floor(w) + 1):i)
    } else if (side %in% c("r", "right")) {
      ind <- c(i:(i + floor(w) - 1))
    } else {
      stop("'side' must be one of 'centre', 'left', 'right'", call. = FALSE)
    }
    ind <- ind[ind %in% seq_len(length(x))]
    y[i] <- fun(x[ind], ...)
  }
  y
}

# and now any variation you can think of!
moving_average <- function(x, w = 5, side = "centre", na.rm = FALSE) {
  moving_fn(x = x, w = w, fun = mean, side = side, na.rm = na.rm)
}

moving_sum <- function(x, w = 5, side = "centre", na.rm = FALSE) {
  moving_fn(x = x, w = w, fun = sum, side = side, na.rm = na.rm)
}

moving_maximum <- function(x, w = 5, side = "centre", na.rm = FALSE) {
  moving_fn(x = x, w = w, fun = max, side = side, na.rm = na.rm)
}

moving_median <- function(x, w = 5, side = "centre", na.rm = FALSE) {
  moving_fn(x = x, w = w, fun = median, side = side, na.rm = na.rm)
}

moving_Q1 <- function(x, w = 5, side = "centre", na.rm = FALSE) {
  moving_fn(x = x, w = w, fun = quantile, side = side, na.rm = na.rm, 0.25)
}

moving_Q3 <- function(x, w = 5, side = "centre", na.rm = FALSE) {
  moving_fn(x = x, w = w, fun = quantile, side = side, na.rm = na.rm, 0.75)
}