How do I subtract sequential values ?

Hi Eric,

I think this does what you want.  It may be a simple question, but
that does not necessarily mean the easiest/fastest answer is
intuitive.  Welcome to R!

dat <- data.frame(v = 1:100)
## the with() is just a convenient way to avoid having to type
## dat$v every single time---similar to attach(), but cleaner
## the idea is to create three vectors, that are offset by removing
## either the first observation or the last
with(dat, (v[-1] - v[-length(v)])/v[-length(v)])

HTH,

Josh

Just starting to learn R so excuse me if this is a simple question. I'm
wondering how I get the percent difference in sequential values in one
column of a dataframe. If I had a dataframe and one of the columns was
"value", how would I go about calculating ?(v2-v1)/v1 ....(v3-v2)/v2
....(v4-v3)/v3 ...etc ?
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