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how to add a derived column to a data frame?

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 03:01:49PM +0800, r-help wrote:
For a general matrix "a", this can be done, for example

  x <- rowSums(a %% 13 == 0)
  b <- cbind(a, x)

If the residues in the columns are periodic, like in the 
example above, then also the vector x is periodic. If this
really occurs in the application, generating the new column
using this fact may also be useful. The "length.out" argument
of rep() can be used.

  y <- rep(rowSums(a[1:13, ] %% 13 == 0), length=1000)
  identical(x, y) # [1] TRUE

Petr Savicky.