Summarize consecutive failures with dplyr and rle

Question

I\'m trying to build a churn model that includes the maximum consecutive number of UX failures for each customer and having trouble. Here\'s my simplified data and desired o

Answer 1

We group by the 'customerId' and use do to perform the rle on 'isFailure' column. Extract the lengths that are 'TRUE' for values (lengths[values]), and create the 'Max' column with an if/else condition to return 0 for those that didn't have any 1 value.

 df %>%
    group_by(customerId) %>%
    do({tmp <- with(rle(.$isFailure==1), lengths[values])
     data.frame(customerId= .$customerId, Max=if(length(tmp)==0) 0 
                    else max(tmp)) }) %>% 
     slice(1L)
#   customerId Max
#1          1   0
#2          2   1
#3          3   2

Answer 2

Here is my try, only using standard dplyr functions:

df %>% 
  # grouping key(s):
  group_by(customerId) %>%
  # check if there is any value change
  # if yes, a new sequence id is generated through cumsum
  mutate(last_one = lag(isFailure, 1, default = 100), 
         not_eq = last_one != isFailure, 
         seq = cumsum(not_eq)) %>% 
  # the following is just to find the largest sequence
  count(customerId, isFailure, seq) %>% 
  group_by(customerId, isFailure) %>% 
  summarise(max_consecutive_event = max(n))

Output:

# A tibble: 5 x 3
# Groups:   customerId [3]
  customerId isFailure max_consecutive_event
       <dbl>     <dbl>                 <int>
1          1         0                     1
2          2         0                     1
3          2         1                     1
4          3         0                     1
5          3         1                     2

A final filter on isFailure value would yield the wanted result (need to add back 0 failure count customers though).

The script can take any values of isFailure column and count the maximum consecutive days of having the same value.