[R] aggregation question
Sundar Dorai-Raj
sundar.dorai-raj at pdf.com
Fri Apr 15 16:48:48 CEST 2005
Christoph Lehmann wrote on 4/15/2005 9:51 AM:
> Hi I have a question concerning aggregation
>
> (simple demo code S. below)
>
> I have the data.frame
>
> id meas date
> 1 a 0.637513747 1
> 2 a 0.187710063 2
> 3 a 0.247098459 2
> 4 a 0.306447690 3
> 5 b 0.407573577 2
> 6 b 0.783255085 2
> 7 b 0.344265082 3
> 8 b 0.103893068 3
> 9 c 0.738649586 1
> 10 c 0.614154037 2
> 11 c 0.949924371 3
> 12 c 0.008187858 4
>
> When I want for each id the sum of its meas I do:
>
> aggregate(data$meas, list(id = data$id), sum)
>
> If I want to know the number of meas(ures) for each id I do, eg
>
> aggregate(data$meas, list(id = data$id), length)
>
> NOW: Is there a way to compute the number of meas(ures) for each id with
> not identical date (e.g using diff()?
> so that I get eg:
>
> id x
> 1 a 3
> 2 b 2
> 3 c 4
>
>
> I am sure it must be possible
>
> thanks for any (even short) hint
>
> cheers
> Christoph
>
>
>
> --------------
> data <- data.frame(c(rep("a", 4), rep("b", 4), rep("c", 4)),
> runif(12), c(1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4))
> names(data) <- c("id", "meas", "date")
>
> m <- aggregate(data$meas, list(id = data$id), sum)
> names(m) <- c("id", "cum.meas")
>
How about:
m <- aggregate(data["date"], data["id"],
function(x) length(unique(x)))
--sundar
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