Dear R-users,
I have a country-year data for 180 countries from 1970 to 2010. I’m interested
in capturing positive and negative changes in some of the variables. Some of
these variables are continuous (0,25, 0,33, 1, 1,5 etc) others are ordered
(0,1, 2).
To do this, I use this code data$X1_change<- +c(FALSE,diff(data$X1))
My data looks something like this (please see below).
There’re some problems with this code: (1) I can’t capture the smaller
changes, say from 0,25 to 0,33 ( I get weird numbers). I would love to get the
exact difference ( for ex: +1, -0,22, +4, -2 etc). (2) It can’t make
difference between countries. That is, it takes the difference between
countries while it should only do this for each country ( for ex: when the US
ends in 2011, and Canada starts, it counts this a difference but it shouldn’t,
see below). (3) NAs, missing values, is neither a positive or negative change,
although it does think that what comes after the NA is a difference.
So, I wonder if anyone here can help me to adjust this code. I appreciate all
comments.
Year
Country
X1
X2
1990
United States
0
0,22
1991
United States
0
0,22
1992
United States
0
0,22
1993
United States
0
0,22
1994
United States
0
0,22
1995
United States
0
0,22
1996
United States
0
0,22
1997
United States
0
0,5
1998
United States
0
0,5
1999
United States
0
0,5
2000
United States
0
0,5
2001
United States
0
0,5
2002
United States
2
NA
2003
United States
2
0,5
2004
United States
2
1
2005
United States
1
1
2006
United States
1
1
2007
United States
1
1
2008
United States
1
1
2009
United States
1
1
2010
United States
1
0,5
2011
United States
0
0,5
1990
Canada
1
1,5
1991
Canada
1
1,5
1992
Canada
1
NA
1993
Canada
1
1,5
1994
Canada
1
1,5
1995
Canada
1
1,5
1996
Canada
1
1,5
1997
Canada
1
1,5
1998
Canada
1
2
1999
Canada
2
2
2000
Canada
2
2
2001
Canada
2
2
2002
Canada
2
2
2003
Canada
1
2
2004
Canada
2
0,5
2005
Canada
1
0,5
2006
Canada
0
0,5
2007
Canada
1
0,5
2008
Canada
0
0,5
2009
Canada
1
0,5
2010
Canada
1
0,5
2011
Canada
0
1
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