Dear knowing people, Dennis Murphy helped me a lot with my first loop last week. Thanks again - I could have made more than 10 "Thank-You cakes" in the time it saved me! But now I want to complicate the thing. My ideas didn't work. Let's see if anyone is smarter ;-) The following packages are needed: library(adehabitatHR) library(rgdal) library(plyr) # My dataframe looks somewhat like this: myframe <- data.frame (Timestamp=c("24.09.2012 09:00", "24.09.2012 10:00", "24.09.2012 11:00", "25.09.2012 09:00", "25.09.2012 10:00", "25.09.2012 11:00", "26.09.2012 09:00", "26.09.2012 10:00", "26.09.2012 11:00"), Longitude=c(8.91617, 8.92700, 8.92711, 8.92722, 8.92733, 8.92744,8.92800, 8.92900, 8.93000 ), Latitude=c(54.5485, 54.5410, 54.5412, 54.5413, 54.5414, 54.5424,54.5500, 54.5600, 54.5700 ) , AnimalID= c(rep("Ernie"))) head(myframe) myframestime <- as.POSIXct (strptime(as.character(myframe$Timestamp), "%d.%m.%Y %H:%M"), tz="GMT") myframe2 <- cbind (myframe,myframestime) myframe2$Timestamp <- NULL myframesxy <- project(cbind(myframe2$Longitude,myframe2$Latitude),"+proj=utm +zone=32 +ellps=WGS84") colnames(myframesxy) <- c("Long", "Lat") myframe3 <- cbind(myframe2, myframesxy) myframe3$Longitude <- NULL myframe3$Latitude <- NULL myframe3 str(myframe3) # and this is what I did with the help of Dennis Murphy last week: myframe3$day <- as.Date(myframe3$myframestime) hrfun <- function(d) { dxy <- d[, c("Long", "Lat")] d_ltraj <- as.ltraj(dxy, d$myframestime, id = d$AnimalID) dLiker <- liker (d_ltraj, sig2 = 18, rangesig1= c(1, 100) ) dBB <- kernelbb(d_ltraj, sig1=dLiker$Ernie$sig1, sig2=18) data.frame(AnimalID = unique(d$AnimalID), day = unique(d$day), h kernel.area(dBB, unout=c("km2"))) } ddply(myframe3, .(day), hrfun) # i.e. I calculated the size of the homerange for Animal "Ernie" at every single day. (The several numbers per day # represent the several Homerange levels). # What I want to do now is to calculate the homerange for Animal "Ernie" for two consecutive days. # I.e. I want a home range for the timespan 24. to 25. Septemberand the # home range for the timespan 25. to 26. September. Each day is included several times in the calculations. # It would be easy to do for the example above by hand (subset) but not for my dataset including a whole year. # does anyone know how to do that? # It would be very helpful! Tagmarie -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/apply-a-function-at-dateX-dateX-1-dateX-2-tp4652488.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.