Hello, everyone. I'm hoping to prevent myself from doing a lot of pointing and clicking in Excel. I have a dataframe of bird nest check observations, in which I know the date of the first check, the date of the second check (both currently in Julian date format), the status of the nest at the second check (alive or failed), and the date that the nest hatched (i.e. changed from Incubation stages to Brood-rearing stage). Many nests have more than one record, as there were several nest checks throughout the duration of the nesting attempt.
What I want to do is assign a nest Stage variable, either Incubation or Brood-rearing. It's very easy to do so when the second nest check was before the hatch date (incubation), or when the first nest check was after the hatch date (brood-rearing). But I can't figure out a quick way to split the interval when it contained both incubation and brood-rearing activities. I'd like to go from: Check1 Check2 HatchDate 101 121 110 to: Check1 Check2 HatchDate Stage 101 109 110 I 110 121 110 B because even though the nest wasn't actually checked on the day of hatching, we know that it transitioned to the next stage on hatch day. There's other covariates as well as the unique nest ID which need to be carried along too, just like HatchDate. If anyone who is good at dataframe manipulation could suggest some code to perform these actions, I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance. cheers, Jessi Brown Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology University of Nevada, Reno ______________________________________________ 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.
