R help - Nov 2011 - Unexpected result with lag() et diff() in plm package.

I didn't see you got an answer posted to this question:

You can't modify a pdata.frame object.  Your transforms turn it back to a
normal data frame and diff and lag won't work as expected.

Try:

Grunfeld.p <- pdata.frame(Grunfeld,c("firm","year"))
tmp <- transform(Grunfeld.p, d.value = diff(Grunfeld.p$value,1))

tmp <- cbind(tmp, l.value = lag(Grunfeld.p$value,1))
...

When everything is in shape, convert it back to a pdata.frame for further
analysis:

Grunfeld.p <- pdata.frame(tmp,c("firm","year"))




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