Sorry, for completeness:

library(dplyr)
olddata %>% group_by(ID) %>% mutate(first = as.integer(row_number() == 1))

--Chris Ryan


Christopher W. Ryan wrote:
> Personally, I'd do this in the tidyverse with dplyr and its row_number()
> function.
> 
> olddata %>% group_by(ID) %>% mutate(first = as.integer(row_number() == 1))
> 
> --Chris Ryan
> 
> Sorkin, John wrote:
>> ID <- c(rep(1,10),rep(2,6),rep(3,2))
>> date <- c(rep(1,2),rep(2,2),rep(3,2),rep(4,2),rep(5,2),
>>           rep(5,3),rep(6,3),rep(10,2))
>> olddata <- data.frame(ID=ID,date=date)

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