[R] find the position of first observation for each subject

[arun]

HI,
Try this:
ds1<- data.frame(id,time)
which(with(ds1,ave(time,id,FUN=seq))==1)
#[1] 1 4 9
A.K.



----- Original Message -----
From: Gallon Li <gallon.li at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 3:56 AM
Subject: [R] find the position of first observation for each subject

suppose I have the following data

id=c(rep(1,3),rep(2,5),rep(3,4))
time=c(seq(1,3),seq(2,6),seq(1,4))

ds=cbind(id,time)

> ds
      id time
[1,]  1    1
[2,]  1    2
[3,]  1    3
[4,]  2    2
[5,]  2    3
[6,]  2    4
[7,]  2    5
[8,]  2    6
[9,]  3    1
[10,]  3    2
[11,]  3    3
[12,]  3    4

i want to return a vector that indicates the position of the first
observation for each id. for the above data, i wish to get (1,4,9).

is it possible to get this quickly>?

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