Repeating lines in a data frame
See ?order, e.g., (a <- expand.grid(1998:2000,1:2,1:3)) attach(a) (b <- a[order(Var1,Var3,Var2),]) Hank
On Oct 18, 2005, at 3:20 PM, Guenther, Cameron wrote:
Hello, I have a much larger dataset that is similar in form to: year species length count 1998 1 150 1 1998 2 200 1 1998 3 250 2 1999 1 150 3 1999 2 200 4 1999 3 250 5 2000 1 150 1 2000 2 200 1 2000 3 250 1 2001 1 150 2 2001 2 200 3 2001 3 250 1 2002 1 150 1 2002 2 200 2 2002 3 250 3 What I want is to have a line of data for each year x species x length group combination I would like the ouput to be: Year species length count 1998 1 150 1 1998 2 200 1 1998 3 250 1 1998 3 250 1 1999 1 150 1 1999 1 150 1 1999 1 150 1 1999 2 200 1 . . . Can anyone help me with a for statement of a function that can accomplish this? Thanks Cameron Guenther Associate Research Scientist FWC/FWRI, Marine Fisheries Research 100 8th Avenue S.E. St. Petersburg, FL 33701 (727)896-8626 Ext. 4305 cameron.guenther at myfwc.com
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