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Message-ID: <OF7B2111EE.542D303C-ONC125799D.0028B35F-C125799D.0028D8C1@precheza.cz>
Date: 2012-02-07T07:25:39Z
From: PIKAL Petr
Subject: I bet apply has a solution
In-Reply-To: <1328553243814-4362294.post@n4.nabble.com>

Hi

 as.logical(rowSums(apply(Data, 2, diff)>0))

here is another option.

Regards
Petr


> 
> Hi all 
> For the data below, I would like to return a logical value indicating
> differences in the data.
> 
> #Create data
> Data..<-data.frame(a=rep(1,10),b=c(rep(1,9),2),c=c(rep(1,8),2,2))
> 
>    a b c
> 1  1 1 1
> 2  1 1 1
> 3  1 1 1
> 4  1 1 1
> 5  1 1 1
> 6  1 1 1
> 7  1 1 1
> 8  1 1 1
> 9  1 1 2
> 10 1 2 2
> 
> 
> So what I want is to return logical value telling me if all the values 
are
> the same.  So the result would be a b c DidChange
> 1  1 1 1     FALSE
> 2  1 1 1     FALSE
> 3  1 1 1     FALSE
> 4  1 1 1     FALSE
> 5  1 1 1     FALSE
> 6  1 1 1     FALSE
> 7  1 1 1     FALSE
> 8  1 1 1     FALSE
> 9  1 1 2      TRUE
> 10 1 2 2      TRUE
> 
> I bet apply could handle this elegantly but that family of functions is
> still not 100% intuitive to me.  Thoughts.  Thanks everyone
> 
> Cheers, 
>  Josh
> 
> 
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