Dimitris: Thank you for the suggestion but I get an error just as when I
did similar commands using by(), The error given is
Error in "$<-.data.frame"(`*tmp*`, "LAGDBC", value =
tapply(csss3lagm81$DBC, :
replacement has 1089 rows, data has 8314
So I'm not sure what the problem is - why does the transformed tmp only
have 1089 rows instead of 8314 like the full data frame?
Brian
Brian S. Cade
U. S. Geological Survey
Fort Collins Science Center
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"Dimitris Rizopoulos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
10/13/2005 10:04 AM
To
"Brian S Cade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject
Re: [R] subsetting with by() or other function??
I think this should be something like:
dat$LAG1DBC <- tapply(dat$DBC, dat$LOCID, function(x) c(NA,
x[-length(x)]))
I hope it helps.
Best,
Dimitris
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From: "Brian S Cade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Florence Combes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: [R] subsetting with by() or other function??
> Fair enough. To clarify what I'm trying to achieve I've pasted
> below a
> small piece of the larger data frame with the hierarchical structure
> of
> factors POPULATION and LOCID and the ascending order of YEARS and
> the
> variable DBC that I would like to transform to another variable that
> is a
> lag of the previous years DBC (call it LAG1DBC) within LOCID within
> POPULATION. The desired outcome is shown in the second example data
> set
> pasted below the first. The setup is desired for doing some 1st
> order
> autoregressive analyses (not in the time series library). Any
> examples
> I've tried doing using by() only seem to work for outputing results
> not
> creating new variables in an existing data frame. I suspect that
> people
> do similar types of hierarchical subgroup data manipulations all the
> time
> in R (I know how to do these easily in SYSTAT), so I'm sure I'm
> missing
> some obvious, simple trick. My search of the R newslist archives
> and
> various other R documentation has not yielded any solutions yet.
> Suggestions are graciously welcomed.
>
> LOCID POPULATION YEAR DBC
> 1 algb-1 A 1992 0.70451575
> 2 algb-1 A 1993 0.59506851
> 3 algb-1 A 1997 0.84837544
> 4 algb-1 A 1998 0.50283182
> 5 algb-1 A 2000 0.91242707
> 6 algb-2 A 1992 0.09747155
> 7 algb-2 A 1993 0.84772253
> 8 algb-2 A 1997 0.43974081
> 9 algb-2 A 1998 0.83108544
> 10 algb-2 A 2000 0.22291192
> 11 algb-3 A 1992 0.44234175
> 12 algb-3 A 1993 0.54089534
> 5680 taylr-73 B 2001 0.43918082
> 5681 taylr-73 B 2002 0.34694427
> 5682 taylr-73 B 2003 3.35619190
> 5683 taylr-73 B 2004 0.71575815
> 5684 taylr-73 B 2005 0.42038506
> 5685 taylr-74 B 1992 3.88410354
> 5686 taylr-74 B 1993 3.32472557
> 5687 taylr-74 B 1994 3.29861501
> 5688 taylr-74 B 1996 0.48153827
> 5689 taylr-74 B 1997 3.63570636
> 5690 taylr-74 B 1998 1.94630194
>
> LOCID POPULATION YEAR DBC
> 1 algb-1 A 1992 0.70451575 NA
> 2 algb-1 A 1993 0.59506851 0.70451575
> 3 algb-1 A 1997 0.84837544 0.59506851
> 4 algb-1 A 1998 0.50283182 0.84837544
> 5 algb-1 A 2000 0.91242707 0.50283182
> 6 algb-2 A 1992 0.09747155 NA
> 7 algb-2 A 1993 0.84772253 0.09747155
> 8 algb-2 A 1997 0.43974081 0.84772253
> 9 algb-2 A 1998 0.83108544 0.43974081
> 10 algb-2 A 2000 0.22291192 0.83108544
> 11 algb-3 A 1992 0.44234175 NA
> 12 algb-3 A 1993 0.54089534 0.44234175
> 5680 taylr-73 B 2001 0.43918082 NA
> 5681 taylr-73 B 2002 0.34694427 0.43918082
> 5682 taylr-73 B 2003 3.35619190 0.34694427
> 5683 taylr-73 B 2004 0.71575815 3.35619190
> 5684 taylr-73 B 2005 0.42038506 0.71575815
> 5685 taylr-74 B 1992 3.88410354 NA
> 5686 taylr-74 B 1993 3.32472557 3.88410354
> 5687 taylr-74 B 1994 3.29861501 3.32472557
> 5688 taylr-74 B 1996 0.48153827 3.29861501
> 5689 taylr-74 B 1997 3.63570636 0.48153827
> 5690 taylr-74 B 1998 1.94630194 3.63570636
>
> Brian
>
>
>
> Brian S. Cade
>
> U. S. Geological Survey
> Fort Collins Science Center
> 2150 Centre Ave., Bldg. C
> Fort Collins, CO 80526-8818
>
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> tel: 970 226-9326
>
>
>
> Florence Combes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 10/13/2005 05:34 AM
>
> To
> Brian S Cade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> cc
>
> Subject
> Re: [R] subsetting with by() or other function??
>
>
>
>
>
>
> maybe an example of the data you have and the data you want could be
> helpful for the people of the list to understand, and so to be able
> to
> help you ?
>
> best regards,
>
> Florence.
>
>
>
> On 10/12/05, Brian S Cade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think I must be missing something obvious, but I'm having trouble
> getting a data transformation to work on groupings of data within a
> data
> frame (csss3) as defined by 2 factors (population, locid). The data
> are
> sorted by year within locid within population and I want to lag
> another
> variable (dbc), i.e, shift them down by 1 row replacing the first
> row with
> NA, within groups defined by locid nested within population. I
> thought I
> could do something using by(csss3,list(locid, population), function)
> but
> don't seem to be having any success. Any suggestions??
>
> Brian
>
> Brian S. Cade
>
> U. S. Geological Survey
> Fort Collins Science Center
> 2150 Centre Ave., Bldg. C
> Fort Collins, CO 80526-8818
>
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