Hi:
Here's another approach:
purchase_amount <- transform(purchase_amount,
diff = with(purchase_amount, ave(amount, customer, FUN =
function(x) c(0, diff(x)))))
purchase_amount
HTH,
Dennis
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 7:27 AM, rens_1112 <tibid...@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Probably a rather stupid question, but I couldn't find the answer..
>
> I currently have a dataframe with customers' id's and purchase amount, what
> I would like to do is to show the difference between amount purchased
> compared to the month before per customer.
>
> I have made some attempts myself using diff, but what i can not get to work
> is that each different customer starts with a 0.
>
> This is an example of what I have:
>
> >purchase_amount
> customer amount
> 123 6
> 123 5
> 123 9
> 123 8
> 123 11
> 123 7
> 230 19
> 230 18
> 230 12
> 230 17
> 380 7
> 380 9
> 380 2
> 380 7
> 380 8
> 380 8
> 380 6
> 380 8
>
> How I would like it to look like:
>
> customer amount difference
> 123 6 0
> 123 5 -1
> 123 9 4
> 123 8 -1
> 123 11 3
> 123 7 -4
> 230 19 0
> 230 18 -1
> 230 12 -6
> 230 17 5
> 380 7 0
> 380 9 2
> 380 2 -7
> 380 7 5
> 380 8 1
> 380 8 0
> 380 6 -2
> 380 8 2
>
> I hope my question is clear like this.
> Many thanks in advance
> Rens
>
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