Fill down tibble columns until a maximum number of time slots

Fill down tibble columns until a maximum number of time slots

Usage

fill_down_until(dtf, varnames, max_timeslots = 1)

Arguments

dtf

data.frame or tibble, first column of name datetime being of class datetime and rest of columns being numeric

varnames

character or vector of characters, column names with NA values

max_timeslots

integer, maximum number of time slots to fill

Value

tibble

Examples

down_data <- data.frame(
  datetime = as.POSIXct("2024-01-01 00:00:00", tz = "UTC") + 0:5 * 3600,
  temperature = c(15, 15, NA, NA, NA, 16)
)
fill_down_until(down_data, "temperature", max_timeslots = 2)
#>              datetime temperature
#> 1 2024-01-01 00:00:00          15
#> 2 2024-01-01 01:00:00          15
#> 3 2024-01-01 02:00:00          15
#> 4 2024-01-01 03:00:00          15
#> 5 2024-01-01 04:00:00          NA
#> 6 2024-01-01 05:00:00          16