@Tom Okay, yeah. That might actually be an elegant solution. I will
mess around with it. Thank you - I?m not in the habit of using
factors and am not super familiar with how they automatically sort
themselves.
@Andrew Yes. Each month is a different 30,000 row file upon which
this task must be performed.
@Bert If you?re not interested in being helpful, why comment? Am I
interupting your clubhouse time? I?m legitimately stumped by this
one and reaching out in earnest. ?You?ve been told how to do it?
Seriously? We all have different backgrounds and knowledge levels
with the entire atlas of the wonderful world of R and I neither need
or want your opinion on my corner of it. Don?t be a Hooke. I?m not
here to impress or inspire confidence in you - I?m here with a
question that has had me spinning my wheels for the better part of a
day and need fresh perspectives. Your response certainly inspires no
confidence in me as to the nature of your character or your
knowledge on the topic.
Best regards all,
?
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On Wednesday, Jul 21, 2021 at 9:12 PM, Andrew Robinson
<apro at unimelb.edu.au (mailto:apro at unimelb.edu.au)> wrote:
I wonder if you mean that you want the levels of the factor to
reset within each month? That is not obvious from your example, but
implied by your question.
Andrew
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On 22 Jul 2021, 1:47 PM +1000, N. F. Parsons
<nathan.f.parsons at gmail.com>, wrote:
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I am not averse to a factor-based solution, but I would still
have to manually enter that factor each month, correct? If
possible, I?d just like to point R at that column and have it do
the work.
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Nathan Parsons, B.SC, M.Sc, G.C.
Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Sociology, Portland State University
Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Washington State University
Graduate Advocate, American Association of University Professors (OR)
Recent work
On Wednesday, Jul 21, 2021 at 8:30 PM, Tom Woolman
<twoolman at ontargettek.com (mailto:twoolman at ontargettek.com)> wrote:
Couldn't you convert the date columns to character type data in a data
frame, and then convert those strings to factors in a 2nd step?
The only downside I think to treating dates as factor levels is that
you might have an awful lot of factors if you have a large enough
dataset.
Quoting "N. F. Parsons" <nathan.f.parsons at gmail.com>:
Hi all,
If I have a tibble as follows:
tibble(dates = c(rep("2021-07-04", 2), rep("2021-07-25", 3),
rep("2021-07-18", 4)))
how in the world do I add a column that evaluates each of
assigns it a categorical value such that
dates cycle
<chr> <chr>
2021-07-04 1
2021-07-04 1
2021-07-25 3
2021-07-25 3
2021-07-25 3
2021-07-18 2
2021-07-18 2
2021-07-18 2
2021-07-18 2
Not to further complicate matters, but some months I may only have one
date, and some months I will have 4 dates - so thats not a
We've literally been doing this by hand at my job and I'd
it.
Thanks in advance!
Nate Parsons
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