Hi Jim,
Thanks for the answer.
What I actually want is a session sequence 1,2,... per patient. This would
be very useful to look at trends of HPV infections from the first to the
second sample etc. It would also allow me to extract the HPV data of the
first sample (session 1).
Thx
JP
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:23 PM, jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is one way of doing it:
>
> > # data by patient and then sequentially number the data
> > x
> V1 V2 V3 V4
> 1 pat1 sampledate1 HPV16 0.3
> 2 pat2 sampledate2 HPV16 0.0
> 3 pat3 sampledata3 HPV16 0.5
> 4 pat1 sampledate4 HPV16 0.6
> 5 pat4 sampledate5 HPV16 0.0
> 6 pat2 sampledate6 HPV16 0.0
> 7 pat1 sampledate7 HPV16 0.0
> > x.s <- split(x, x$V1)
> > # now put in the ids
> > do.call(rbind, lapply(x.s, function(.pat){
> + .pat$V2 <- seq(nrow(.pat))
> + .pat
> + }))
> V1 V2 V3 V4
> pat1.1 pat1 1 HPV16 0.3
> pat1.4 pat1 2 HPV16 0.6
> pat1.7 pat1 3 HPV16 0.0
> pat2.2 pat2 1 HPV16 0.0
> pat2.6 pat2 2 HPV16 0.0
> pat3 pat3 1 HPV16 0.5
> pat4 pat4 1 HPV16 0.0
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 4:14 PM, John-Paul Bogers
> <john-paul.bog...@ua.ac.be> wrote:
> > Dear Jim,
> > he data concerns HPV screening data.
> > The data looks as follows
> > pat1 sampledate1 HPV16 0.3
> > pat2 sampledate2 HPV16 0
> > pat3 sampledata3 HPV16 0.5
> > pat1 sampledate4 HPV16 0.6
> > pat4 sampledate5 HPV16 0
> > pat2 sampledate6 HPV16 0
> > pat1 sampledate7 HPV16 0
> > What I would like is
> > pat1 1 HPV16 0.3
> > pat2 1 HPV16 0
> > pat3 1 HPV16 0.5
> > pat1 2 HPV16 0.6
> > pat4 1 HPV16 0
> > pat2 2 HPV16 0
> > pat1 3 HPV16 0
> > I would like to recode sampledate (real date, in date format) to session
> > sequence (first sample of this patient, second sample of this patient,
> ....)
> > I hope this makes it clear.
> > Thanks
> > JP
> > PS: I answered this as a reply to your private mail, how do I get this on
> > the mailinglist?
> > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 7:59 PM, jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> It would be useful if you could provide an example of what the data
> >> looks like now and what you would like it to look like; otherwise it
> >> is impossible to help.
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:37 AM, John-Paul Bogers
> >> <john-paul.bog...@ua.ac.be> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I'm fairly new to R but I have a large dataset (300000 obs) containing
> >> > patient material. Some patients came 2-9 times during the three year
> >> > observation period. The patients are identified by a unique idnr, the
> >> > sessions can be distinguished using the session date. How can I recode
> >> > the
> >> > date of the session to a session id (1-9). This would be necessary to
> >> > obtain
> >> > information and do some analysis on the first occurence of a specific
> >> > patient or to look for trends.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> >
> >> > JP Bogers
> >> > University of Antwerp
> >> >
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jim Holtman
> >> Cincinnati, OH
> >> +1 513 646 9390
> >>
> >> What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
> >
> >
>
>
>
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> Jim Holtman
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>
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