Dear Steve, Using Jim Holtman's x data, you can also try the following for columns 3 and 4:
a <- with(x, apply(x[,3:4], 2, tapply, site,function(x) cumsum(x))) x[,c('cvar1','cvar2')] <- do.call(cbind,lapply(a, function(x) do.call(c,x))) x HTH, Jorge On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:48 AM, SEUNG CHEON HONG <seungh...@wisc.edu>wrote: > Dear R-Help List, > > I have a question about data manipulation. I tried to make code myself but > too much for me. I would greatly appreciate your help. > > I have data set consisting of site (from 1 to N1) and distance and there > are several variables (1 to N2) collected from each sampling site. I am > interested in looking at cumulative sums of each variable based on site and > distance like below. > > Can anyone help create function to do the task? The cumulative sum outputs > may not be necessarily combined with original data. It will be better to > have only cumulative sum outputs and indicator variables of interest. > > site distance var1 var(n2) cu.sum.v1 > cu.sum.v(n2) > 1 10 1 0 1 0 > 1 20 0 1 1 1 > 1 30 1 2 2 3 > 1 40 3 3 5 6 > 1 50 1 4 6 10 > 2 10 1 1 1 1 > 2 20 2 1 3 2 > 2 30 4 1 7 3 > 2 40 0 1 7 4 > 2 50 1 1 8 5 > ,,, ,,, ,,, ,,, ,,, > n1 10 1 1 1 1 > n1 20 1 0 2 1 > n1 30 1 1 3 2 > n1 40 1 0 4 2 > n1 50 1 1 5 3 > > > Thank you very much for reading and time!!! > > Steve Hong > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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