thank u very much Wiliam Dunlap, your function is very helpful, i been trying to find the right algo,,,and i saw yours, it works perfectly. i even checked with system.time function, and it's clear the cum.reset is the best.
> system.time(ave(J, rev(cumsum(rev(is.na(J)))), FUN=cumsum)) utilisateur système écoulé 0.18 0.00 0.19 > system.time(cumsum.reset(J)) utilisateur système écoulé 0 0 0 thks -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/partial-cumsum-tp899789p3560134.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.