R 根据另一个data.table中的上次更改更新data.table

R 根据另一个data.table中的上次更改更新data.table,r,join,data.table,R,Join,Data.table,我目前有两个数据表,如下所示: dt1 <- data.table(urn=c("1","1","1","1","1","1","1","2","2","2","2","3","3","3","3","3","3","3","2"), date=as.Date(c("2014-01-15","2014-02-15","2014-03-15","2014-04-15","2014-05-15","2014-06-15","2014-07-15",

我目前有两个数据表,如下所示:

dt1 <- data.table(urn=c("1","1","1","1","1","1","1","2","2","2","2","3","3","3","3","3","3","3","2"),
                  date=as.Date(c("2014-01-15","2014-02-15","2014-03-15","2014-04-15","2014-05-15","2014-06-15","2014-07-15",
                         "2014-04-15","2014-05-15","2014-06-15","2014-07-15",
                         "2014-04-15","2014-03-15","2014-05-15","2014-02-15","2014-06-14","2014-08-15","2014-07-15","2014-09-16")),
                  amount=c(20,20,15,15,15,20,25,
                           15,15,20,20,
                           30,30,30,30,25,25,25,20))

#dt1
#    urn       date amount
# 1:   1 2014-01-15     20
# 2:   1 2014-02-15     20
# 3:   1 2014-03-15     15
# 4:   1 2014-04-15     15
# 5:   1 2014-05-15     15
# 6:   1 2014-06-15     20
# 7:   1 2014-07-15     25
# 8:   2 2014-04-15     15
# 9:   2 2014-05-15     15
#10:   2 2014-06-15     20
#11:   2 2014-07-15     20
#12:   3 2014-04-15     30
#13:   3 2014-03-15     30
#14:   3 2014-05-15     30
#15:   3 2014-02-15     30
#16:   3 2014-06-14     25
#17:   3 2014-08-15     25
#18:   3 2014-07-15     25
#19:   2 2014-09-16     20

dt2 <- data.table(urn=c("1","2","3"), lastamount=c(25,20,25),lastchangedate=as.Date(c(NA,NA,NA)))

#dt2
#    urn lastamount lastchangedate
# 1:   1         25           <NA>
# 2:   2         20           <NA>
# 3:   3         25           <NA>
这显然是一个样本数据集。给出一个数量级,我的真实dt1有350万条记录,dt2有250K条记录

谢谢

更新: 由于我的真实dt2中的列比示例中显示的多,因此我需要能够将它们保留在最终输出中。我不想覆盖dt2的当前实例,只想单独更新lastchangedate。下面是我使用的代码

setkey(dt1, urn) # this is after I had used setkey(dt1, urn, date) to order dt1 properly
setkey(dt2, urn)

dt2[dt1[,list(lastchangedate=max(date[which(diff(amount)!=0)+1])), 
    by=urn],lastchangedate:=i.lastchangedate]
这应该做到:

setkey(dt1, urn, date)   ## sort table
dt2 <- dt1[, list(lastamount=amount[.N],
                  lastchangedate=max(date[which(diff(amount)!=0)+1])), 
           by=urn]
setkey(dt1,urn,date)##排序表

dt2是stackoverflow的新手,我试图了解如何提出有用的问题。我真的很感激关于这个问题的反馈对我没有帮助,所以我可以为未来改进。
setkey(dt1, urn, date)   ## sort table
dt2 <- dt1[, list(lastamount=amount[.N],
                  lastchangedate=max(date[which(diff(amount)!=0)+1])), 
           by=urn]