I would use pkg:plyr, but just to show how versatile R is:
ind <- cumsum(rle(as.numeric(dat$Name))$lengths) dat[ind, ] where I'm assuming that your data frame is called 'dat'. -Peter Ehlers Hao Cen wrote:
Hi, I would like to extract the last row of each group in a data frame. The data frame is as follows Name Value A 1 A 2 A 3 B 4 B 8 C 2 D 3 I would like to get a data frame as Name Value A 3 B 8 C 2 D 3 Thank you for your suggestions in advance Jeff ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
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