[R] conditionally merging adjacent rows in a data frame

[Marek Janad]

I've sent last message only to Titus. Sorry :)
Below my proposition:

Instead of aggregate, try summaryBy from doBy package. It's much
faster. And this package made my life easier :)

try:
summaryBy(dur+x~index, data=d, FUN=c(sum, mean)),
but index should be in data.frame as I remember.

I haven't checked this code, so let me know, if it doesn't work.

2009/12/8 Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Nikhil Kaza <nikhil.list at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I suppose that is true, but the example data seem to suggest that it is
>> sorted by rt.
>
> I was not very clear on that.  Sorry.
>
>> d$count <- 1
>>  a <- with(d, aggregate(subset(d, select=c("dur", "x", "count"),
>> list(rt=rt,tid=tid,mood=mood,roi=roi), sum))
>> a$x <- a$x/a$count
>
> This is neat!
>
>> But it would still be nice to get a generic way that uses different
>> functions on different columns much like excel's pivot table.
>
> I guess the most straight-forward thing would be to extend aggregate
> to also accept instead of a FUN a list of FUNs where the first is
> applied to value of the first column of x (the data frame), the second
> to the second column, and so on.
>
>  Titus
>
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-- 
Marek