Dear David, You would speed up things is you first create a subset were all values of ldlc is >= 130. Then you only have to find the lowest age for each child in this subset.
HTH, Thierry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section biometrics, methodology and quality assurance Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium tel. + 32 54/436 185 thierry.onkel...@inbo.be www.inbo.be To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] Namens David Freedman Verzonden: maandag 25 mei 2009 14:45 Aan: r-help@r-project.org Onderwerp: [R] long format - find age when another variable is first 'high' Dear R, I've got a data frame with children examined multiple times and at various ages. I'm trying to find the first age at which another variable (LDL-Cholesterol) is >= 130 mg/dL; for some children, this may never happen. I can do this with transformBy and ddply, but with 10,000 different children, these functions take some time on my PCs - is there a faster way to do this in R? My code on a small dataset follows. Thanks very much, David Freedman d<-data.frame(id=c(rep(1,3),rep(2,2),3),age=c(5,10,15,4,7,12),ldlc=c(132 ,120,125,105,142,160)) d$high.ldlc<-ifelse(d$ldlc>=130,1,0) d library(plyr) d2<-ddply(d,~id,transform,plyr.minage=min(age[high.ldlc==1])); library(doBy) d2<-transformBy(~id,da=d2,doby.minage=min(age[high.ldlc==1])); d2 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/long-format---find-age-when-another-variable-is-fi rst-%27high%27-tp23706393p23706393.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. Dit bericht en eventuele bijlagen geven enkel de visie van de schrijver weer en binden het INBO onder geen enkel beding, zolang dit bericht niet bevestigd is door een geldig ondertekend document. The views expressed in this message and any annex are purely those of the writer and may not be regarded as stating an official position of INBO, as long as the message is not confirmed by a duly signed document. ______________________________________________ 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.
