Luca wrote on 12/09/2010 09:38:07 AM:
> ...
> What I am trying to do is to build another variable fine1 that
> should contain the lagged value for "fine", that is:
>
> x fine fine1
> 1 A 2010-12-09 07:57:33 NA
> 2 B 2010-12-09 08:05:00 2010-12-09 07:57:33
> 3 C 2010-12-08 20:42:00 2010-12-09 08:05:00
>
> How can I do that?
A few ways. If you search for lag in the last couple of weeks, you'll see
a discussion on this. One is as follows:
foo <- data.frame(x=LETTERS, fine=as.Date(0:25, origin='2010-01-01'))
foo$fine1<-as.Date(NA)
foo[2:nrow(foo),]$fine1 <- foo[1:(nrow(foo)-1),]$fine
cur
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