My data are from 2008 to 2010, with repeated measures for same subjects. I wish to compute number of months since january 2008.
The data are like the following: ID date 1 4/12/2008 1 4/13/2008 1 5/11/2008 2 3/21/2009 2 4/22/2009 2 8/05/2009 ... the date column are in the format "%m/%d/%y". i wish to obtain ID month 1 4 1 4 1 5 2 15 2 16 2 20 ... also, for the same ID with two identical month, I only want to keep the last one. can any expert help with this question? [[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.