See ?lag and in zoo ?lag.zoo. Both pages have examples. Using lag.zoo here it is with your data:
Lines <- "Date Apples Oranges Pears 1/7 2 3 5 2/7 1 4 7 3/7 3 8 10 4/7 5 7 2 5/7 6 3 5" library(zoo) # z <- read.zoo("myfile.dat", header = TRUE, format = "%d/%m") z <- read.zoo(textConnection(Lines), header = TRUE, format = "%d/%m") lag(z, -1, na.pad = TRUE) On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:12 PM, rcoder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Thanks very much for all your replies. > > I'm interested in hearing more about the lag function. I remember coming > across this in the R intro manual, but I couldn't figure out how to apply it > to my case. Does anyone know how it is applied, assuming a time series data > frame? > > Thanks, > > rcoder > > > > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> >> If its a zoo or ts time series you can use the lag function. >> >> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:57 PM, rcoder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I have some data in a matrix, and I want to shift it down by one row. The >>> matrix in question has a date column. Does anyone know of a way to shift >>> the >>> data by one row, whilst preserving the date column in the matrix - i.e. >>> shift the data and leave the date column in the current location? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> rcoder >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://www.nabble.com/shifting-data-in-matrix-by-n-rows-tp18368420p18368420.html >>> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/shifting-data-in-matrix-by-n-rows-tp18368420p18389841.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.