[R] data recoding problem

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

one option is the following:

do.call(rbind, lapply(split(tox, tox$id), function (x) {
    if (any(ind <- x$event == 1))
        x[which(ind)[1], ]
    else
        x[nrow(x), ]
}))


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Williams Scott" <Scott.Williams at petermac.org>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 10:14 AM
Subject: [R] data recoding problem


> Hi R experts,
>
> I have a data recoding problem I cant get my head around - I am not 
> that
> great at the subsetting syntax. I have a dataset of longitudinal
> toxicity data (for multistate modelling) for which I want to also 
> want
> to do a simple Kaplan-Meier curve of the time to first toxic event.
>
> The data for 2 cases presently looks like this (one with an event, 
> the
> other without), with id representing each person on study, and 
> follow-up
> time and status:
>
>
>> tox
>
> id      t       event
>
> PMC011  0.000     0
> PMC011  3.154     0
> PMC011  5.914     0
> PMC011 12.353     0
> PMC011 18.103     1
> PMC011 24.312     0
> PMC011 30.029     0
> PMC011 47.967     0
> PMC011 96.953     0
> PMC016  0.000     0
> PMC016  3.943     0
> PMC016  5.782     0
> PMC016 11.762     0
> PMC016 17.741     0
> PMC016 23.951     0
> PMC016 28.353     0
> PMC016 44.747     0
> PMC016 89.692     0
>
> So what I need is an output in the same column format, containing 
> each
> of the unique values of id:
>
> PMC011 18.103     1
> PMC016 89.692     0
>
> In my head, I would do this by looking at each unique value of id 
> (each
> unique case), look down the event data of each of these cases - if 
> there
> is no event (event==0), then I would go to the time column (t) and 
> find
> the max value and paste this time along with a 0 for event. If there
> were an event, I would then need to find the minimum time associated
> with an event to paste across with the event marker. I am sure 
> someone
> out there can point me in the right direction to do this without 
> tedious
> and slow loops. Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers
>
> Scott
> _____________________________
>
> Dr. Scott Williams
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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