Problem solved: DF = data.frame(read.table(textConnection(" A B C D E 1 1 a 1999 1 0 2 1 b 1999 0 1 3 1 c 1999 0 1 4 1 d 1999 1 0 5 2 c 2001 1 0 6 2 d 2001 0 1 7 3 a 2004 0 1 8 3 b 2004 0 1 9 3 d 2004 0 1 10 4 b 2001 1 0 11 4 c 2001 1 0 12 4 d 2001 0 1"),head=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE)) DF = DF[order(DF$B,DF$C),] foo1<- function(x) { unlist(lapply(x, FUN = function(z) cumsum(z) - z)) } DF<-cbind(DF[,c(1:3)],ave(DF[, c("D", "E")],DF$B, FUN = foo)) DF$F<-paste(DF$B,"a",DF$C,sep="") foo2<- function(x) { lapply(x, FUN = function(z) min(z)) } DF<-cbind(DF[,c(1:3)],ave(DF[, c("D", "E")],DF$F,FUN = foo2))
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