[R] Filtering based on the occurrence

[Jim Lemon]

Hi Farnoosh,
Despite my deep suspicion that this answer will solve a useless
problem, try this:

last_subject<-0
keep_deps<-c("B","D","F")
keep_rows<-NULL
for(rowindex in 1:dim(df)[1]) {
 if(df[rowindex,"Subject"] != last_subject) {
  last_subject<-df[rowindex,"Subject"]
  start_keeping<-0
 }
 if(df[rowindex,"deps"] %in% keep_deps) start_keeping<-1
 if(start_keeping) keep_rows<-c(keep_rows,rowindex)
}
final<-matrix(unlist(lapply(df[keep_rows,],as.character)),ncol=3)

I find it terribly hard to ignore puzzles.

Jim


On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Farnoosh Sheikhi via R-help
<r-help at r-project.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a data set similar to below and I wanted to keep the observations after the first occurrence of these department: "B", "D", "F".For example for ID=2, the observation with deps=B and anything after will be kept in the data. For ID=3, observations with deps=D and anything after will be included.
> Subject<- c("2", "2", "2", "3", "3", "3", "4", "4", "5", "5", "5", "5")dates<-seq(as.Date('2011-01-01'),as.Date('2011-01-12'),by = 1) deps<-c("A", "B", "C", "C", "D", "A", "F", "G", "A", "F", "A", "D")df <- data.frame(Subject, dates, deps)df
> The final data should look like this:final<-c("2 2011-01-02    B","2 2011-01-03    C","3 2011-01-05    D","3 2011-01-06    A","4 2011-01-07    F","4 2011-01-08    G","5 2011-01-10    F","5 2011-01-11    A","5 2011-01-12    D") Thank you tons for your help.
> Farnoosh
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