[R] Refer to previous row
Berend Hasselman
bhh at xs4all.nl
Mon Jan 7 19:07:00 CET 2013
On 07-01-2013, at 14:33, Paolo Donatelli <donatellipaolo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a very basic doubt -- but still, I am a newby!
>
> My question is about referring to the previous row: in a sample as the
> following...
>
> ID X1 X2
> 1 A 12
> 2 A 6
> 3 A 10
> 1 B 17
> 2 B 19
> 1 C 22
> 1 D 13
> 2 D 19
> 3 D 21
>
> ... I would like to create a dummy variable equal to 1 whenever the
> value of ID of the current row is lower or equal than the value of ID
> of the previous row -- check the new vector X3 I'd like to obtain:
>
> ID X1 X2 X3
> 1 A 12 0
> 2 A 6 0
> 3 A 10 0
> 1 B 17 1
> 2 B 19 0
> 1 C 22 1
> 1 D 13 1
> 2 D 19 0
> 3 D 21 0
>
> I have searched a lot without finding a decent and working solution. I
> suppose it is just some basic matter of indexing language, something
> like
>
> X3<- as.numeric ( ID[n] <= ID[n-1])
Assuming your data are in a data.frame called dat this will work
dat$X3 <- c(0, diff(dat$ID)<=0)
Berend
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