[R] noob requesting help

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

Try something along the lines of


res <- lapply(split(dat, list(dat$id, dat$trip)), function(x) x[x$time 
== min(x$time), ])
do.call(rbind, res)


Note that 'data' is an R function, so I've called it 'dat'.
And that the column names are not exactly the same.

Also, you should follow the posting guide and post a data example using 
dput(). Like this:

dput(head(dat, 20))  # or 30, see ?head

Then copy the output of that instruction and paste it in your post.


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 08-06-2012 14:02, capital_P escreveu:
> I'm fairly new to R and still learning how to use it. I could really use some
> help with the following problem.
>
> I have a huge .csv file containing thousands of measurements on 34 different
> birds. Measurements include longitude,
latitude, altitude, speed, time, etc.
> All birds have a different number (ranging from 121 to 542). All
> measurements have a tripID (1 for the first trip of every bird, 2 for the
> second, etc.)
>
> I need to create a vector containing only the first measurement of every
> trip. I need this to see at what time a bird leaves the nest and eventually
> make a histogram out of that.
>
> I need to write a piece of code that would look something like this:
>
> bird121trip1 <- (data[which(data$device_info_serial == 121 &
> [which(data$tripID == 1)] & [which(data$time == "lowest"),]
>
> bird121trip2 <- (data[which(data$device_info_serial == 121 &
> [which(data$tripID == 2)] & [which(data$time == "lowest"),]
>
> bird130trip1 <- (data[which(data$device_info_serial == 130 &
> [which(data$tripID == 1)] & [which(data$time == "lowest"),]
>
> etc.
>
> trip.departures <- c(bird121trip1, bird121trip2, bird130trip1, etc)
>
> I could do it like I described above (although I would have to replace
> "lowest" with something that actually works), but I have 34 birds and many
> of them have hundreds of different trips. I'm sure there's an easier and
> faster way to do that.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
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