# 139–140

Puzzles:

PQ_139: content file
PQ_140: content file

I noticed that usually Power Query puzzles are about time. Does it really a case in PQ that time related calculations are hard or tricky?

PQ_139

In this puzzle we have to extract informations about people days off for vacation. Table has person and date when that person was on day of. Our goal is to find start and end date of break but with one important factor. We do not count weekends.

Lets check it out.

Load data and libraries

library(tidyverse)
library(readxl)
library(lubridate)

input = read_excel("PQ_Challenge_139.xlsx", range = "A1:B20") %>% janitor::clean_names()
test  = read_excel("PQ_Challenge_139.xlsx", range = "D1:H7") %>% janitor::clean_names()

Modification

result = input %>%
  group_by(name) %>% 
  mutate(lagged = lag(vacation_date, 1),
         diff = as.numeric(difftime(vacation_date, lagged, units = "days")),
         diff = ifelse(is.na(diff), 0, diff),
         vacation_no = cumsum(ifelse(diff != 1, 1, 0)),
         wd = wday(vacation_date, week_start = 1)) %>%
  ungroup() %>%
  filter(!wd %in% c(6, 7))  %>%
  group_by(name, vacation_no) %>%
  summarise(vacation_from_date = min(vacation_date),
            vacation_end_date = max(vacation_date),
            number_of_workdays = as.numeric(n())) %>%
  ungroup() %>%
  arrange(desc(name))

Validation

identical(test, result)
# [1] TRUE

PQ_140

And once again we have warehouse management task. We have opening stock level for first day, and withdrawals with dates and amounts. But manager needs to have values for end of a day.

Let help him out!

Load data and libraries

library(tidyverse)
library(readxl)
library(lubridate)

T1 = read_excel("PQ_Challenge_140.xlsx", range = "A1:D10") %>% janitor::clean_names()
T2 = read_excel("PQ_Challenge_140.xlsx", range = "F1:G7") %>% janitor::clean_names()

test = read_excel("PQ_Challenge_140.xlsx", range = "I1:M10") %>% janitor::clean_names()

Transformation

combined_data = T1 %>%
  left_join(T2, by = "item")%>%
  arrange(item, date, time) %>%
# when I read data date for time column is in 1890s and I need to fix it
  mutate(time1 = date + hours(hour(time))+ minutes(minute(time)) + seconds(second(time))) %>%
  group_by(item) %>%
  mutate(cum_quantity = cumsum(quantity),
         cum_stock = stock - cum_quantity) %>%
  ungroup() %>%
  group_by(item, date) %>%
  mutate(end_of_day = max(time1) == time1, 
         end_of_day_stock = ifelse(end_of_day, cum_stock, NA)) %>%
  ungroup() %>%
  select(1:4,10)

Verification

identical(combined_data, test)
# [1] TRUE

We’ve seen some nice puzzles considering time changes and it shows little bit out of the box thinking. Feel free to ask, like and share.
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