Joining, Merging and Appending Frames
Deedle provides a rich set of operations for combining data frames and series. This page covers:
- Frame joins — align two frames on their row/column keys
- Series zipping — combine two series element-by-element
- Append / concatenate — stack frames vertically or horizontally
- Merge series — merge sparse series into one
Frame joins
Frame.join combines two frames that share the same row-key type. The JoinKind
controls which rows appear in the result.
// Stock prices for two securities
let aapl =
Frame.ofColumns [
"Open", Series.ofValues [ 150.0; 152.0; 151.0; 153.0 ]
"Close", Series.ofValues [ 151.5; 151.0; 153.5; 154.0 ]
]
|> Frame.indexRowsWith [| "2024-01-15"; "2024-01-16"; "2024-01-17"; "2024-01-18" |]
let msft =
Frame.ofColumns [
"Open", Series.ofValues [ 370.0; 375.0; 373.0 ]
"Close", Series.ofValues [ 374.0; 373.0; 376.0 ]
]
|> Frame.indexRowsWith [| "2024-01-15"; "2024-01-16"; "2024-01-18" |]
Outer join — keep all rows from both frames
let outerJoin = Frame.join JoinKind.Outer aapl msft
|
An outer join includes all row keys from either frame. Columns from each frame are
suffixed with .1 and .2 when their names clash.
Missing values appear where one frame had no data for a given key.
Inner join — keep only rows present in both frames
let innerJoin = Frame.join JoinKind.Inner aapl msft
|
Left join — keep all rows from the left frame
let leftJoin = Frame.join JoinKind.Left aapl msft
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Lookup join — align on nearest key
When frames have different but ordered key sets, you can fill missing values by
looking up the nearest available value using Frame.joinAlign.
let daily =
frame [ "Price" => Series.ofValues [ 100.0; 101.0; 102.0; 103.0; 104.0 ] ]
|> Frame.indexRowsWith [| 1; 2; 3; 4; 5 |]
let sparse =
frame [ "Signal" => Series.ofValues [ 0.0; 1.0 ] ]
|> Frame.indexRowsWith [| 1; 3 |]
// Fill missing signal values by carrying forward the last known value
let aligned = Frame.joinAlign JoinKind.Left Lookup.ExactOrSmaller daily sparse
|
Lookup.ExactOrSmaller picks the nearest key that is ≤ the row key (forward fill).
Use Lookup.ExactOrGreater for backward fill.
Series zipping
Series.zip and Series.zipInto combine two series into a series of tuples or
aggregated values, aligning on matching keys.
let s1 = Series.ofValues [ 1.0; 2.0; 3.0 ] |> Series.indexWith [| "a"; "b"; "c" |]
let s2 = Series.ofValues [ 10.0; 30.0 ] |> Series.indexWith [| "a"; "c" |]
// Pair up values — missing in s2 where key is absent
let zipped = Series.zip s1 s2
|
// Sum corresponding values (inner join semantics — only where both have values)
let summed = Series.zipInto (fun a b -> a + b) s1 s2
|
Appending and concatenating frames
Frame.appendRowsBy / Frame.merge
Use Frame.appendRowsBy to stack two frames with compatible columns vertically.
let q1 =
frame [ "Sales" => Series.ofValues [ 100.0; 120.0; 130.0 ] ]
|> Frame.indexRowsWith [| 1; 2; 3 |]
let q2 =
frame [ "Sales" => Series.ofValues [ 140.0; 110.0; 150.0 ] ]
|> Frame.indexRowsWith [| 4; 5; 6 |]
// Concatenate the two frames vertically (row-wise)
let fullYear = Frame.merge q1 q2
|
Adding columns from another frame
Use Frame.addCol or Frame.join to add columns to an existing frame.
let withExtra =
fullYear
|> Frame.addCol "Month" (Series.ofValues [ "Jan"; "Feb"; "Mar"; "Apr"; "May"; "Jun" ]
|> Series.indexWith [| 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6 |])
|
Merging sparse series
Series.merge fills gaps in one series with values from another. The first series
takes priority; values from the second are used only where the first is missing.
let primary = Series.ofOptionalObservations [ (1, Some 10.0); (2, None); (3, Some 30.0); (4, None) ]
let secondary = Series.ofOptionalObservations [ (1, Some 99.0); (2, Some 20.0); (3, None); (4, Some 40.0) ]
let merged = Series.merge primary secondary
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The result contains values from primary where present, and falls back to secondary
for missing positions.
You can also use Frame.mergeAll to merge a list of frames, or combine Series.merge
with Series.map and Series.zip for more complex merge strategies.
module Frame from Deedle
<summary> The `Frame` module provides an F#-friendly API for working with data frames. The module follows the usual desing for collection-processing in F#, so the functions work well with the pipelining operator (`|>`). For example, given a frame with two columns representing prices, we can use `Frame.pctChange` to calculate daily returns like this: let df = frame [ "MSFT" => prices1; "AAPL" => prices2 ] let rets = df |> Frame.pctChange 1 rets |> Stats.mean Note that the `Stats.mean` operation is overloaded and works both on series (returning a number) and on frames (returning a series). You can also use `Frame.diff` if you need absolute differences rather than relative changes. The functions in this module are designed to be used from F#. For a C#-friendly API, see the `FrameExtensions` type. For working with individual series, see the `Series` module. The functions in the `Frame` module are grouped in a number of categories and documented below. Accessing frame data and lookup ------------------------------- Functions in this category provide access to the values in the fame. You can also add and remove columns from a frame (which both return a new value). - `addCol`, `replaceCol` and `dropCol` can be used to create a new data frame with a new column, by replacing an existing column with a new one, or by dropping an existing column - `cols` and `rows` return the columns or rows of a frame as a series containing objects; `getCols` and `getRows` return a generic series and cast the values to the type inferred from the context (columns or rows of incompatible types are skipped); `getNumericCols` returns columns of a type convertible to `float` for convenience. - You can get a specific row or column using `get[Col|Row]` or `lookup[Col|Row]` functions. The `lookup` variant lets you specify lookup behavior for key matching (e.g. find the nearest smaller key than the specified value). There are also `[try]get` and `[try]Lookup` functions that return optional values and functions returning entire observations (key together with the series). - `sliceCols` and `sliceRows` return a sub-frame containing only the specified columns or rows. Finally, `toArray2D` returns the frame data as a 2D array. Grouping, windowing and chunking -------------------------------- The basic grouping functions in this category can be used to group the rows of a data frame by a specified projection or column to create a frame with hierarchical index such as <c>Frame<'K1 * 'K2, 'C></c>. The functions always aggregate rows, so if you want to group columns, you need to use `Frame.transpose` first. The function `groupRowsBy` groups rows by the value of a specified column. Use `groupRowsBy[Int|Float|String...]` if you want to specify the type of the column in an easier way than using type inference; `groupRowsUsing` groups rows using the specified _projection function_ and `groupRowsByIndex` projects the grouping key just from the row index. More advanced functions include: `aggregateRowsBy` which groups the rows by a specified sequence of columns and aggregates each group into a single value; `pivotTable` implements the pivoting operation [as documented in the tutorials](../frame.html#pivot). The `melt` and `unmelt` functions turn the data frame into a single data frame containing columns `Row`, `Column` and `Value` containing the data of the original frame; `unmelt` can be used to turn this representation back into an original frame. The `stack` and `unstack` functions implement pandas-style reshape operations. `stack` converts `Frame<'R,'C>` to a long-format `Frame<'R*'C, string>` where each cell becomes a row keyed by `(rowKey, colKey)` with a single `"Value"` column. `unstack` promotes the inner row-key level to column keys, producing `Frame<'R1, 'C*'R2>` from `Frame<'R1*'R2,'C>`. A simple windowing functions that are exposed for an entire frame operations are `window` and `windowInto`. For more complex windowing operations, you currently have to use `mapRows` or `mapCols` and apply windowing on individual series. Sorting and index manipulation ------------------------------ A frame is indexed by row keys and column keys. Both of these indices can be sorted (by the keys). A frame that is sorted allows a number of additional operations (such as lookup using the `Lookp.ExactOrSmaller` lookup behavior). The functions in this category provide ways for manipulating the indices. It is expected that most operations are done on rows and so more functions are available in a row-wise way. A frame can alwyas be transposed using `Frame.transpose`. Index operations: The existing row/column keys can be replaced by a sequence of new keys using the `indexColsWith` and `indexRowsWith` functions. Row keys can also be replaced by ordinal numbers using `indexRowsOrdinally`. The function `indexRows` uses the specified column of the original frame as the index. It removes the column from the resulting frame (to avoid this, use overloaded `IndexRows` method). This function infers the type of row keys from the context, so it is usually more convenient to use `indexRows[Date|String|Int|...]` functions. Finally, if you want to calculate the index value based on multiple columns of the row, you can use `indexRowsUsing`. Sorting frame rows: Frame rows can be sorted according to the value of a specified column using the `sortRows` function; `sortRowsBy` takes a projection function which lets you transform the value of a column (e.g. to project a part of the value). The functions `sortRowsByKey` and `sortColsByKey` sort the rows or columns using the default ordering on the key values. The result is a frame with ordered index. Expanding columns: When the frame contains a series with complex .NET objects such as F# records or C# classes, it can be useful to "expand" the column. This operation looks at the type of the objects, gets all properties of the objects (recursively) and generates multiple series representing the properties as columns. The function `expandCols` expands the specified columns while `expandAllCols` applies the expansion to all columns of the data frame. Frame transformations --------------------- Functions in this category perform standard transformations on data frames including projections, filtering, taking some sub-frame of the frame, aggregating values using scanning and so on. Projection and filtering functions such as `[map|filter][Cols|Rows]` call the specified function with the column or row key and an <c>ObjectSeries<'K></c> representing the column or row. You can use functions ending with `Values` (such as `mapRowValues`) when you do not require the row key, but only the row series; `mapRowKeys` and `mapColKeys` can be used to transform the keys. You can use `reduceValues` to apply a custom reduction to values of columns. Other aggregations are available in the `Stats` module. You can also get a row with the greaterst or smallest value of a given column using `[min|max]RowBy`. The functions `take[Last]` and `skip[Last]` can be used to take a sub-frame of the original source frame by skipping a specified number of rows. Note that this does not require an ordered frame and it ignores the index - for index-based lookup use slicing, such as `df.Rows.[lo .. hi]`, instead. Finally the `shift` function can be used to obtain a frame with values shifted by the specified offset. This can be used e.g. to get previous value for each key using `Frame.shift 1 df`. The `diff` function calculates difference from previous value using `df - (Frame.shift offs df)`. Processing frames with exceptions --------------------------------- The functions in this group can be used to write computations over frames that may fail. They use the type <c>tryval<'T></c> which is defined as a discriminated union with two cases: Success containing a value, or Error containing an exception. Using <c>tryval<'T></c> as a value in a data frame is not generally recommended, because the type of values cannot be tracked in the type. For this reason, it is better to use <c>tryval<'T></c> with individual series. However, `tryValues` and `fillErrorsWith` functions can be used to get values, or fill failed values inside an entire data frame. The `tryMapRows` function is more useful. It can be used to write a transformation that applies a computation (which may fail) to each row of a data frame. The resulting series is of type <c>Series<'R, tryval<'T>></c> and can be processed using the <c>Series</c> module functions. Missing values -------------- This group of functions provides a way of working with missing values in a data frame. The category provides the following functions that can be used to fill missing values: * `fillMissingWith` fills missing values with a specified constant * `fillMissingUsing` calls a specified function for every missing value * `fillMissing` and variants propagates values from previous/later keys We use the terms _sparse_ and _dense_ to denote series that contain some missing values or do not contain any missing values, respectively. The functions `denseCols` and `denseRows` return a series that contains only dense columns or rows and all sparse rows or columns are replaced with a missing value. The `dropSparseCols` and `dropSparseRows` functions drop these missing values and return a frame with no missing values. Joining, merging and zipping ---------------------------- The simplest way to join two frames is to use the `join` operation which can be used to perform left, right, outer or inner join of two frames. When the row keys of the frames do not match exactly, you can use `joinAlign` which takes an additional parameter that specifies how to find matching key in left/right join (e.g. by taking the nearest smaller available key). Frames that do not contian overlapping values can be combined using `merge` (when combining just two frames) or using `mergeAll` (for larger number of frames). Tha latter is optimized to work well for a large number of data frames. Finally, frames with overlapping values can be combined using `zip`. It takes a function that is used to combine the overlapping values. A `zipAlign` function provides a variant with more flexible row key matching (as in `joinAlign`) Hierarchical index operations ----------------------------- A data frame has a hierarchical row index if the row index is formed by a tuple, such as <c>Frame<'R1 * 'R2, 'C></c>. Frames of this kind are returned, for example, by the grouping functions such as <c>Frame.groupRowsBy</c>. The functions in this category provide ways for working with data frames that have hierarchical row keys. The functions <c>applyLevel</c> and <c>reduceLevel</c> can be used to reduce values according to one of the levels. The <c>applyLevel</c> function takes a reduction of type <c>Series<'K, 'T> -> 'T</c> while <c>reduceLevel</c> reduces individual values using a function of type <c>'T -> 'T -> 'T</c>. The functions <c>nest</c> and <c>unnest</c> can be used to convert between frames with hierarchical indices (<c>Frame<'K1 * 'K2, 'C></c>) and series of frames that represent individual groups (<c>Series<'K1, Frame<'K2, 'C>></c>). The <c>nestBy</c> function can be used to perform group by operation and return the result as a series of frems. </summary>
<category>Frame and series operations</category>
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type Frame = static member ReadCsv: location: string * [<Optional>] hasHeaders: Nullable<bool> * [<Optional>] inferTypes: Nullable<bool> * [<Optional>] inferRows: Nullable<int> * [<Optional>] schema: string * [<Optional>] separators: string * [<Optional>] culture: string * [<Optional>] maxRows: Nullable<int> * [<Optional>] missingValues: string array * [<Optional>] preferOptions: bool * [<Optional>] encoding: Encoding -> Frame<int,string> + 1 overload static member ReadReader: reader: IDataReader -> Frame<int,string> static member CustomExpanders: Dictionary<Type,Func<obj,(string * Type * obj) seq>> with get static member NonExpandableInterfaces: ResizeArray<Type> with get static member NonExpandableTypes: HashSet<Type> with get
<summary> Provides static methods for creating frames, reading frame data from CSV files and database (via IDataReader). The type also provides global configuration for reflection-based expansion. </summary>
<category>Frame and series operations</category>
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type Frame<'TRowKey,'TColumnKey (requires equality and equality)> = interface IDynamicMetaObjectProvider interface INotifyCollectionChanged interface IFrameFormattable interface IFsiFormattable interface IFrame new: rowIndex: IIndex<'TRowKey> * columnIndex: IIndex<'TColumnKey> * data: IVector<IVector> * indexBuilder: IIndexBuilder * vectorBuilder: IVectorBuilder -> Frame<'TRowKey,'TColumnKey> + 1 overload member AddColumn: column: 'TColumnKey * series: 'V seq -> unit + 3 overloads member AggregateRowsBy: groupBy: 'TColumnKey seq * aggBy: 'TColumnKey seq * aggFunc: Func<Series<'TRowKey,'a>,'b> -> Frame<int,'TColumnKey> member Clone: unit -> Frame<'TRowKey,'TColumnKey> member ColumnApply: f: Func<Series<'TRowKey,'T>,ISeries<'TRowKey>> -> Frame<'TRowKey,'TColumnKey> + 1 overload ...
<summary> A frame is the key Deedle data structure (together with series). It represents a data table (think spreadsheet or CSV file) with multiple rows and columns. The frame consists of row index, column index and data. The indices are used for efficient lookup when accessing data by the row key `'TRowKey` or by the column key `'TColumnKey`. Deedle frames are optimized for the scenario when all values in a given column are of the same type (but types of different columns can differ). </summary>
<remarks><para>Joining, zipping and appending:</para><para> More info </para></remarks>
<category>Core frame and series types</category>
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new: names: 'TColumnKey seq * columns: ISeries<'TRowKey> seq -> Frame<'TRowKey,'TColumnKey>
new: rowIndex: Indices.IIndex<'TRowKey> * columnIndex: Indices.IIndex<'TColumnKey> * data: IVector<IVector> * indexBuilder: Indices.IIndexBuilder * vectorBuilder: Vectors.IVectorBuilder -> Frame<'TRowKey,'TColumnKey>
static member Frame.ofColumns: cols: ('C * #ISeries<'R>) seq -> Frame<'R,'C> (requires equality and equality)
module Series from Deedle
<summary> The `Series` module provides an F#-friendly API for working with data and time series. The API follows the usual design for collection-processing in F#, so the functions work well with the pipelining (<c>|></c>) operator. For example, given a series with ages, we can use `Series.filterValues` to filter outliers and then `Stats.mean` to calculate the mean: ages |> Series.filterValues (fun v -> v > 0.0 && v < 120.0) |> Stats.mean The module provides comprehensive set of functions for working with series. The same API is also exposed using C#-friendly extension methods. In C#, the above snippet could be written as: [lang=csharp] ages .Where(kvp => kvp.Value > 0.0 && kvp.Value < 120.0) .Mean() For more information about similar frame-manipulation functions, see the `Frame` module. For more information about C#-friendly extensions, see `SeriesExtensions`. The functions in the `Series` module are grouped in a number of categories and documented below. Accessing series data and lookup -------------------------------- Functions in this category provide access to the values in the series. - The term _observation_ is used for a key value pair in the series. - When working with a sorted series, it is possible to perform lookup using keys that are not present in the series - you can specify to search for the previous or next available value using _lookup behavior_. - Functions such as `get` and `getAll` have their counterparts `lookup` and `lookupAll` that let you specify lookup behavior. - For most of the functions that may fail, there is a `try[Foo]` variant that returns `None` instead of failing. - Functions with a name ending with `At` perform lookup based on the absolute integer offset (and ignore the keys of the series) Series transformations ---------------------- Functions in this category perform standard transformations on series including projections, filtering, taking some sub-series of the series, aggregating values using scanning and so on. Projection and filtering functions generally skip over missing values, but there are variants `filterAll` and `mapAll` that let you handle missing values explicitly. Keys can be transformed using `mapKeys`. When you do not need to consider the keys, and only care about values, use `filterValues` and `mapValues` (which is also aliased as the `$` operator). Series supports standard set of folding functions including `reduce` and `fold` (to reduce series values into a single value) as well as the `scan[All]` function, which can be used to fold values of a series into a series of intermeidate folding results. The functions `take[Last]` and `skip[Last]` can be used to take a sub-series of the original source series by skipping a specified number of elements. Note that this does not require an ordered series and it ignores the index - for index-based lookup use slicing, such as `series.[lo .. hi]`, instead. Finally the `shift` function can be used to obtain a series with values shifted by the specified offset. This can be used e.g. to get previous value for each key using `Series.shift 1 ts`. The `diff` function calculates difference from previous value using `ts - (Series.shift offs ts)`. Processing series with exceptions --------------------------------- The functions in this group can be used to write computations over series that may fail. They use the type <c>tryval<'T></c> which is defined as a discriminated union with two cases: Success containing a value, or Error containing an exception. The function `tryMap` lets you create <c>Series<'K, tryval<'T>></c> by mapping over values of an original series. You can then extract values using `tryValues`, which throws `AggregateException` if there were any errors. Functions `tryErrors` and `trySuccesses` give series containing only errors and successes. You can fill failed values with a constant using `fillErrorsWith`. Hierarchical index operations ----------------------------- When the key of a series is tuple, the elements of the tuple can be treated as multiple levels of a index. For example <c>Series<'K1 * 'K2, 'V></c> has two levels with keys of types <c>'K1</c> and <c>'K2</c> respectively. The functions in this cateogry provide a way for aggregating values in the series at one of the levels. For example, given a series `input` indexed by two-element tuple, you can calculate mean for different first-level values as follows: input |> applyLevel fst Stats.mean Note that the `Stats` module provides helpers for typical statistical operations, so the above could be written just as `input |> Stats.levelMean fst`. Grouping, windowing and chunking -------------------------------- This category includes functions that group data from a series in some way. Two key concepts here are _window_ and _chunk_. Window refers to (overlapping) sliding windows over the input series while chunk refers to non-overlapping blocks of the series. The boundary behavior can be specified using the `Boundary` flags. The value `Skip` means that boundaries (incomplete windows or chunks) should be skipped. The value `AtBeginning` and `AtEnding` can be used to define at which side should the boundary be returned (or skipped). For chunking, `AtBeginning ||| Skip` makes sense and it means that the incomplete chunk at the beginning should be skipped (aligning the last chunk with the end). The behavior may be specified in a number of ways (which is reflected in the name): - `dist` - using an absolute distance between the keys - `while` - using a condition on the first and last key - `size` - by specifying the absolute size of the window/chunk The functions ending with `Into` take a function to be applied to the window/chunk. The functions `window`, `windowInto` and `chunk`, `chunkInto` are simplified versions that take a size. There is also `pairwise` function for sliding window of size two. Missing values -------------- This group of functions provides a way of working with missing values in a series. The `dropMissing` function drops all keys for which there are no values in the series. The `withMissingFrom` function lets you copy missing values from another series. The remaining functions provide different mechanism for filling the missing values. * `fillMissingWith` fills missing values with a specified constant * `fillMissingUsing` calls a specified function for every missing value * `fillMissing` and variants propagates values from previous/later keys Sorting and index manipulation ------------------------------ A series that is sorted by keys allows a number of additional operations (such as lookup using the `Lookp.ExactOrSmaller` lookup behavior). However, it is also possible to sort series based on the values - although the functions for manipulation with series do not guarantee that the order will be preserved. To sort series by keys, use `sortByKey`. Other sorting functions let you sort the series using a specified comparer function (`sortWith`), using a projection function (`sortBy`) and using the default comparison (`sort`). In addition, you can also replace the keys of a series with other keys using `indexWith` or with integers using `indexOrdinally`. To pick and reorder series values using to match a list of keys use `realign`. Sampling, resampling and advanced lookup ---------------------------------------- Given a (typically) time series sampling or resampling makes it possible to get time series with representative values at lower or uniform frequency. We use the following terminology: - `lookup` and `sample` functions find values at specified key; if a key is not available, they can look for value associated with the nearest smaller or the nearest greater key. - `resample` function aggregate values values into chunks based on a specified collection of keys (e.g. explicitly provided times), or based on some relation between keys (e.g. date times having the same date). - `resampleUniform` is similar to resampling, but we specify keys by providing functions that generate a uniform sequence of keys (e.g. days), the operation also fills value for days that have no corresponding observations in the input sequence. Joining, merging and zipping ---------------------------- Given two series, there are two ways to combine the values. If the keys in the series are not overlapping (or you want to throw away values from one or the other series), then you can use `merge` or `mergeUsing`. To merge more than 2 series efficiently, use the `mergeAll` function, which has been optimized for large number of series. If you want to align two series, you can use the _zipping_ operation. This aligns two series based on their keys and gives you tuples of values. The default behavior (`zip`) uses outer join and exact matching. For ordered series, you can specify other forms of key lookups (e.g. find the greatest smaller key) using `zipAlign`. functions ending with `Into` are generally easier to use as they call a specified function to turn the tuple (of possibly missing values) into a new value. For more complicated behaviors, it is often convenient to use joins on frames instead of working with series. Create two frames with single columns and then use the join operation. The result will be a frame with two columns (which is easier to use than series of tuples). </summary>
<category>Frame and series operations</category>
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type Series = static member ofNullables: values: Nullable<'a> seq -> Series<int,'a> (requires default constructor and value type and 'a :> ValueType) static member ofObservations: observations: ('a * 'b) seq -> Series<'a,'b> (requires equality) static member ofOptionalObservations: observations: ('K * 'a option) seq -> Series<'K,'a> (requires equality) static member ofValues: values: 'a seq -> Series<int,'a>
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type Series<'K,'V (requires equality)> = interface ISeriesFormattable interface IFsiFormattable interface ISeries<'K> new: index: IIndex<'K> * vector: IVector<'V> * vectorBuilder: IVectorBuilder * indexBuilder: IIndexBuilder -> Series<'K,'V> + 3 overloads member After: lowerExclusive: 'K -> Series<'K,'V> member Aggregate: aggregation: Aggregation<'K> * keySelector: Func<DataSegment<Series<'K,'V>>,'TNewKey> * valueSelector: Func<DataSegment<Series<'K,'V>>,OptionalValue<'R>> -> Series<'TNewKey,'R> (requires equality) + 1 overload member AsyncMaterialize: unit -> Async<Series<'K,'V>> member Before: upperExclusive: 'K -> Series<'K,'V> member Between: lowerInclusive: 'K * upperInclusive: 'K -> Series<'K,'V> member Compare: another: Series<'K,'V> -> Series<'K,Diff<'V>> ...
<summary> The type <c>Series<K, V></c> represents a data series consisting of values `V` indexed by keys `K`. The keys of a series may or may not be ordered </summary>
<category>Core frame and series types</category>
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new: pairs: Collections.Generic.KeyValuePair<'K,'V> seq -> Series<'K,'V>
new: keys: 'K seq * values: 'V seq -> Series<'K,'V>
new: keys: 'K array * values: 'V array -> Series<'K,'V>
new: index: Indices.IIndex<'K> * vector: IVector<'V> * vectorBuilder: Vectors.IVectorBuilder * indexBuilder: Indices.IIndexBuilder -> Series<'K,'V>
<summary> Replace the row index of the frame with the provided sequence of row keys. The rows of the frame are assigned keys according to the provided order. </summary>
<param name="frame">Source data frame whose row index are to be replaced.</param>
<param name="keys">A collection of new row keys.</param>
<category>Sorting and index manipulation</category>
<summary> Join two data frames. The columns of the joined frames must not overlap and their rows are aligned and transformed according to the specified join kind. For more alignment options on ordered frames, see `joinAlign`. </summary>
<param name="frame1">First data frame (left) to be used in the joining</param>
<param name="frame2">Other frame (right) to be joined with `frame1`</param>
<param name="kind">Specifies the joining behavior on row indices. Use `JoinKind.Outer` and `JoinKind.Inner` to get the union and intersection of the row keys, respectively. Use `JoinKind.Left` and `JoinKind.Right` to use the current key of the left/right data frame.</param>
<category>Joining, merging and zipping</category>
<summary> This enumeration specifies joining behavior for `Join` method provided by `Series` and `Frame`. Outer join unions the keys (and may introduce missing values), inner join takes the intersection of keys; left and right joins take the keys of the first or the second series/frame. </summary>
<category>Parameters and results of various operations</category>
<summary> Combine the keys available in both structures, align the values that are available in both of them and mark the remaining values as missing. </summary>
<summary> Take the intersection of the keys available in both structures and align the values of the two structures. The resulting structure cannot contain missing values. </summary>
<summary> Take the keys of the left (first) structure and align values from the right (second) structure with the keys of the first one. Values for keys not available in the second structure will be missing. </summary>
<summary> A function for constructing data frame from a sequence of name - column pairs. This provides a nicer syntactic sugar for `Frame.ofColumns`. </summary>
<example> To create a simple frame with two columns, you can write: <code> frame [ "A" => series [ 1 => 30.0; 2 => 35.0 ] "B" => series [ 1 => 30.0; 3 => 40.0 ] ] </code></example>
<category>Frame construction</category>
<summary> Join two data frames. The columns of the joined frames must not overlap and their rows are aligned and transformed according to the specified join kind. When the index of both frames is ordered, it is possible to specify `lookup` in order to align indices from other frame to the indices of the main frame (typically, to find the nearest key with available value for a key). </summary>
<param name="frame1">First data frame (left) to be used in the joining</param>
<param name="frame2">Other frame (right) to be joined with `frame1`</param>
<param name="kind">Specifies the joining behavior on row indices. Use `JoinKind.Outer` and `JoinKind.Inner` to get the union and intersection of the row keys, respectively. Use `JoinKind.Left` and `JoinKind.Right` to use the current key of the left/right data frame.</param>
<param name="lookup">When `kind` is `Left` or `Right` and the two frames have ordered row index, this parameter can be used to specify how to find value for a key when there is no exactly matching key or when there are missing values.</param>
<category>Joining, merging and zipping</category>
<summary> Represents different behaviors of key lookup in series. For unordered series, the only available option is `Lookup.Exact` which finds the exact key - methods fail or return missing value if the key is not available in the index. For ordered series `Lookup.Greater` finds the first greater key (e.g. later date) with a value. `Lookup.Smaller` searches for the first smaller key. The options `Lookup.ExactOrGreater` and `Lookup.ExactOrSmaller` finds the exact key (if it is present) and otherwise search for the nearest larger or smaller key, respectively. </summary>
<category>Parameters and results of various operations</category>
<summary> Lookup a value associated with the specified key or with the nearest smaller key that has a value available. Fails (or returns missing value) only when the specified key is smaller than all available keys. </summary>
<summary> Returns a new series containing the specified keys mapped to the original values of the series. When the sequence contains _fewer_ keys, the values from the series are dropped. When it contains _more_ keys, the values for additional keys are missing. </summary>
<category>Sorting and index manipulation</category>
<summary> Align and zip two series using outer join and exact key matching. The function returns a series of tuples where both elements may be missing. As a result, it is often easier to use join on frames instead. </summary>
<category>Joining, merging and zipping</category>
<summary> Align and zip two series using inner join and exact key matching (use `zipAlignInto` for more options). The function calls the specified function `op` to combine values from the two series </summary>
<param name="op">A function that combines values from the two series.</param>
<param name="series1">The first (left) series to be aligned</param>
<param name="series2">The second (right) series to be aligned</param>
<category>Joining, merging and zipping</category>
<summary> Append two data frames with non-overlapping values. The operation takes the union of columns and rows of the source data frames and then unions the values. An exception is thrown when both data frames define value for a column/row location, but the operation succeeds if one frame has a missing value at the location. Note that the rows are *not* automatically reindexed to avoid overlaps. This means that when a frame has rows indexed with ordinal numbers, you may need to explicitly reindex the row keys before calling append. </summary>
<param name="frame1">First of the two frames to be merged (combined)</param>
<param name="frame2">The other frame to be merged (combined) with the first instance</param>
<category>Joining, merging and zipping</category>
<summary> Creates a new data frame that contains all data from the original data frame, together with an additional series. The operation uses left join and aligns new series to the existing frame keys. </summary>
<param name="column">A key (or name) for the newly added column</param>
<param name="series">A data series to be added (the row key type has to match)</param>
<param name="frame">Source data frame (which is not mutated by the operation)</param>
<category>Accessing frame data and lookup</category>
<summary> Merge two series with distinct keys. When the same key with a value occurs in both series, an exception is thrown. In that case, you can use `mergeUsing`, which allows specifying merging behavior. </summary>
<category>Joining, merging and zipping</category>
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