Here is how you should be creating your dataframe so that each element has the proper mode:
> days=Sys.Date()-1:70 > price=abs(rnorm(70)) > regular=rep(c(0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,0,1),c(7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7)) > y=data.frame(cbind(days,price,regular)) > str(y) 'data.frame': 70 obs. of 3 variables: $ days : num 14991 14990 14989 14988 14987 ... # notice is it numeric $ price : num 0.626 0.184 0.836 1.595 0.33 ... $ regular: num 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... > y <- data.frame(days, price, regular) > str(y) 'data.frame': 70 obs. of 3 variables: $ days :Class 'Date' num [1:70] 14991 14990 14989 14988 14987 ...# here it is 'Date' $ price : num 0.626 0.184 0.836 1.595 0.33 ... $ regular: num 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... > y days price regular 1 2011-01-17 0.62645381 0 2 2011-01-16 0.18364332 0 3 2011-01-15 0.83562861 0 4 2011-01-14 1.59528080 0 5 2011-01-13 0.32950777 0 6 2011-01-12 0.82046838 0 7 2011-01-11 0.48742905 0 8 2011-01-10 0.73832471 0 On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Daniel Wu <daniel_w...@163.com> wrote: > days=Sys.Date()-1:70 > price=abs(rnorm(70)) > regular=rep(c(0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,0,1),c(7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7)) > y=data.frame(cbind(days,price,regular)) > > > y is like > days price regular > 1 14990 0.16149463 0 > 2 14989 1.69519358 0 > 3 14988 1.57821998 0 > 4 14987 0.47614311 0 > 5 14986 0.87016180 0 > 6 14985 2.55679229 0 > 7 14984 0.89753533 0 > > > the output I want: > have another column appended to y, whose value is the max price in the recent > 2 **regular** weeks. > So if the current row is today, then get the max price of the past 14 days > (including today) if the last 2 week are regular weeks, if one of the last 2 > weeks is not regular week, then I need to go back further to find the max > price, as I need the max price for the last 2 **regular** weeks. How can I do > that? Or I have to use loop/if to do it? > > > > > BTW, why the days is like 14990,14989, after cbind(days,price,regular)? > before the cbind, days is like the format "2010-12-23". > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.