Re: [R] length of object in repeated measures

2009-02-09 Thread Stavros Macrakis
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:03 AM, clion wrote: > > this is good, but it doesn't solve my main problem (which I unfortunately > din't post - very sorry ) > I would like to filter may data , for example by: > > dat.sub<-dat[dat$age>10 & dat$NoCaps>2,] > > So I need a column where the number of Captur

Re: [R] length of object in repeated measures

2009-02-09 Thread clion
this is good, but it doesn't solve my main problem (which I unfortunately din't post - very sorry ) I would like to filter may data , for example by: dat.sub<-dat[dat$age>10 & dat$NoCaps>2,] So I need a column where the number of Captures is repeated for all rows of each captured animal. (or is

Re: [R] length of object in repeated measures

2009-02-09 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
in this case you can use ave(), e.g., say 'dat' is the name of your data frame, then try this: dat$NoCaps <- ave(dat$Id, dat$Id, FUN = length) dat I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris clion wrote: Hi there. I collectad data of several animals (Id) that were caught and measured at several occasi

Re: [R] length of object in repeated measures

2009-02-09 Thread jim holtman
This should do it for you: > x <- read.table('clipboard', header=TRUE) > x Id age mass 1 1 1 5.4 2 1 3 6.2 3 1 15 10.0 4 2 3 8.1 5 2 10 12.8 6 3 2 5.9 7 3 10 7.1 8 3 15 15.4 9 3 17 16.2 > x$NoCap <- ave(x$Id, x$Id, FUN=length) > x Id age mass NoCap 1 1 1 5.4

[R] length of object in repeated measures

2009-02-09 Thread clion
Hi there. I collectad data of several animals (Id) that were caught and measured at several occasions. The dataframe looks like this: Grouped Data: mass ~ age | Id Id age mass 11 5.4 13 6.2 1 15 10.0 23 8.1 2 10