> [R] Counting Elements Conditionally
> Edward Patzelt
> to:
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> 08/22/2011 02:33 PM
>
> R -
>
> I have 3 variables with data below. Variable "Rev" is a vector
that
changes> from 1 to 2, 2 to 3, etc.... Variable "FF" is a binary variable
with
1's> and 0's. Variable "bin" is a different binary variable with
1's and
0's.>
> I want to calculate the number of elements:
>
> 1. Starting with the first element where Rev switches (i.e. 1 to 2)
>
> 2. The number of elements between the transition and the first 0 in the
> "FF" vector; *when "bin" is also a 0.*
> *
> *
> 3. I want to do this for each transition in Rev, but ignore all
elements> after calculating #2 until another transition has occurred.
>
>
> structure(list(Rev = c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,
> 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L,
> 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L), FF = c(0L,
> 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 1L,
> 1L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 1L,
> 1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L), bin = c(NA, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
> 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1,
> 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1)), .Names = c("Rev",
"FF", "bin"
> ), row.names = c(NA, -40L), class = "data.frame")
>
>
> --
> Edward H. Patzelt
> Research Assistant ? TRiCAM Lab
> University of Minnesota ? Psychology/Psychiatry
> VA Medical Center
> Office: S355 Elliot Hall - Twin Cities Campus
> Phone: 612-626-0072 Email: patze003@umn.edu
>
Try this (I'm assuming your data.frame is called "df":
uR <- unique(df$Rev)
uR0 <- uR*10L
first.Rev <- match(uR, df$Rev)
first.Rev0 <- match(uR0, df$Rev * 10L + df$FF)
no.elements <- first.Rev0 - first.Rev + 1
This starts with Rev=1 (rather than Rev=2), but you can get rid of that by
dropping the first result ...
no.elements[-1]
Jean
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