Jim, It looks exactly like what I wanted. Thanks! - Mark
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:03 AM, jim holtman<jholt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is this what you want: > >> aggregate(X$PL_Pos, list(X$MyDate), sum) > Group.1 x > 1 2009-08-03 174 > 2 2009-08-04 -26 > 3 2009-08-05 614 > 4 2009-08-06 318 > 5 2009-08-10 414 > 6 2009-08-11 -626 > 7 2009-08-12 544 > 8 2009-08-13 -106 > 9 2009-08-17 -146 > 10 2009-08-19 1004 > 11 2009-08-20 568 > 12 2009-08-24 -716 > 13 2009-08-25 -132 > 14 2009-08-26 8 > 15 2009-08-27 622 >> > You can fix up the column names. > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Mark Knecht<markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> I wonder if someone can suggest how to create a new data.frame Y >> from X where X$PL_Pos is summed by each unique X$MyDate. Y should end >> up with two (or more) columns Y$MyDate and Y$PL_Sum with its value >> being the cumsum of all the values in X for that date. - a 'daily >> cumsum'. >> >> Thanks, >> Mark >> >> >> TStoDate = function (TSDate) { >> X = strptime(TSDate + 19e6L, "%Y%m%d") >> return(as.Date(X)) >> } >> >> X = structure(list(EnDate = c(1090803, >> 1090804, 1090805, 1090806, 1090806, 1090810, 1090811, 1090812, >> 1090813, 1090817, 1090819, 1090820, 1090820, 1090824, 1090825, >> 1090825, 1090826, 1090826, 1090827, 1090827, 1090827), PL_Pos = c(174, >> -26, 614, 344, -26, 414, -626, 544, -106, -146, 1004, 344, 224, >> -716, -176, 44, 354, -346, -296, 564, 354)), .Names = c("EnDate", "PL_Pos"), >> class = "data.frame", row.names = c("733", >> "734", "3631", "3641", "736", "2403", "2413", "3651", "3661", >> "3671", "3681", "3691", "1303", "3701", "1304", "1305", "2432", >> "1306", "3712", "1307", "4214")) >> >> X$MyDate = TStoDate(X$EnDate) >> >> X >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Cincinnati, OH > +1 513 646 9390 > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > ______________________________________________ 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.