As Bert says that does not look like R Have a look an these links for some suggestions on asking questions here.
http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Reproducibility.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 at 13:42, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: > What language are you programming in? -- it certainly isn't R. > > I suggest that you stop what you're doing and go through an R tutorial or > two before proceeding. This list cannot serve as a substitute for doing > such homework (is this homework, btw? -- that's off topic here) nor can we > provide such tutorials. > > I'm pretty sure the answer is quite simple, though it's a bit unclear as > you did not provide a reprex (see the posting guide linked below for how to > post here). However, I see no purpose in my blurting it out when you do not > seem aware of even the most basic R constructs -- e.g. see ?while. Of > course, others may disagree and provide you what you seek. > > > Bert Gunter > > "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and > sticking things into it." > -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 10:21 AM e-mail ma015k3113 via R-help < > r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > > > Dear All, I have a dataframe which has a few thousand companies with > > unique company numbers and names and each company has data for several > > years and each year is stored in a separate row. > > > > I want to get a total for the number of years of data for each company. > > When I loop through the data with the following command I get a value of > > ‘1’ rather than a total of the rows for each company > > > > All_companies$count <-0 > > > > while All_companies$COMPANY_NAME == All_companies$COMPANY_NAME + 1 > > > > + {All_companies$count=All_companies$count+1} > > > > Can you kindly help me on this? > > > > Ahson > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- John Kane Kingston ON Canada [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.