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simple data.frame question

4 messages · arun, David Winsemius, Troels Ring

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Dear friends - I hope you will forgive me another simple question, 
illustrated by

ID <- c(1,1,1,2,2,3,3,3)
PERIOD <- c(1,2,3,2,3,1,2,3)
X <- runif(8,0,10))

FF <- data.frame(ID=ID,PERIOD=PERIOD,X=X)

I need to the fourth value of X as NA, and ID and PERIOD is updated to 
1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3 and 1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3 respectively.
How do I use the pattern in ID and PERIOD to find the lacking X and put NA?

Best wishes

Troels Ring,
Aalborg, Denmark
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Hi Troels,
Not sure this is what you want.
? ID PERIOD????????? X
1? 1????? 1 8.27119347
2? 1????? 2 9.64698097
3? 1????? 3 2.74132386
4? 2????? 1???????? NA
5? 2????? 2 4.29322683
6? 2????? 3 5.09269667
7? 3????? 1 4.07936332
8? 3????? 2 7.41808455
9? 3????? 3 0.01558664


A.K.





----- Original Message -----
From: Troels Ring <tring at gvdnet.dk>
To: r-help at r-project.org
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Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 11:56 AM
Subject: [R] simple data.frame question

Dear friends - I hope you will forgive me another simple question, illustrated by

ID <- c(1,1,1,2,2,3,3,3)
PERIOD <- c(1,2,3,2,3,1,2,3)
X <- runif(8,0,10))

FF <- data.frame(ID=ID,PERIOD=PERIOD,X=X)

I need to the fourth value of X as NA, and ID and PERIOD is updated to 1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3 and 1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3 respectively.
How do I use the pattern in ID and PERIOD to find the lacking X and put NA?

Best wishes

Troels Ring,
Aalborg, Denmark

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On May 16, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Troels Ring wrote:

            
Extraneous paren removed:
> ffnew=merge(x=expand.grid(1:3,1:3),
+ y=FF, by =1:2, all.x=TRUE)
 > ffnew
   Var1 Var2         X
1    1    1 6.6294571
2    1    2 0.5749111
3    1    3 8.7895630
4    2    1        NA
5    2    2 5.7213062
6    2    3 6.1030507
7    3    1 8.9182841
8    3    2 4.2823937
9    3    3 8.8249263
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT
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Thanks a lot - beautiful
Troels

Den 16-05-2012 19:29, David Winsemius skrev: