Try this:
x2 <- merge(x, cbind(unique(x), Site=sprintf("S%d",
seq_len(nrow(unique(x))))), by=c("X", "Y"))
x2[order(x2$site)]
On 11/02/2008, Weidong Gu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> HI,
>
>
>
> I am working on a data set with multiple collections of mosquitoes at
> sampling sites. Each row represents a collection of individual samples
> with coordinates for each collection.
>
> ... X, Y,...
>
> 1 36.435 30.118
>
> 2 36.435 30.118
>
> 3 36.435 30.118
>
> 4 35.329 29.657
>
> 5 35.329 29.657
>
> 6 36.431 30.111
>
> 7 36.431 30.111
>
> 8 35.421 29.797
>
> 9 35.421 29.797
>
> 10 35.421 29.797
>
>
>
> Unfortunately, there is no 'site' entry. I would like to add a column of
> 'site' based on the coordinates of samples so that samples from the same
> sites have the same site ID like S1, S2,....
>
>
>
> How to do this in R way? Thanks.
>
>
>
>
>
> Weidong Gu,
>
> Department of Medicine
> University of Alabama, Birmingham
> 1900 University Blvd., Birmingham, Alabama 35294
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> PH: (205)-975-9053
>
>
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