Hi Everyone, I have the following problem:
data <- structure(list(prochi = c("IND1", "IND1", "IND1", "IND2", "IND2", "IND2", "IND2", "IND3", "IND4", "IND5"), date_admission = structure(c(6468, 6470, 7063, 9981, 9983, 14186, 14372, 5129, 9767, 11168), class = "Date")), .Names = c("prochi", "date_admission"), row.names = c("27", "28", "21", "86", "77", "80", "1", "114", "192", "322"), class = "data.frame") I have records for individuals that were taken on specific dates. Some of the dates are within 3 days of each other. I want to be able to clean my date column and select the earliest of the dates that occur within 3 days of each other per individual as a single observation that represents the N observations. So for example: input: IND1 1987-09-17 IND1 1987-09-19 IND1 1989-05-04 output: IND1 1987-09-17 IND1 1989-05-04 I'm not sure where to start with this? Thanks, Nat -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Cleaning-date-columns-tp3343359p3343359.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.