Hi
I have data for events in rows, with columns for person and date. Each
person may have more than one event;
tC <- textConnection("
Person date
bob 1/1/00
bob 1/2/00
bob 1/3/00
dave 1/7/00
dave 1/8/00
dave 1/10/00
kevin 1/2/00
kevin 1/3/00
kevin 1/4/00
")
data <- read.table(header=TRUE, tC)
close.connection(tC)
rm(tC)
I would like to add a new column to my dataframe containing the calculated
number of elapsed days from the starting date for each person. So the new
dataframe would read
Person date Days
bob 1/1/00 0
bob 1/2/00 1
bob 1/3/00 2
dave 1/7/00 0
dave 1/8/00 1
dave 1/10/00 3
kevin 1/2/00 0
kevin 1/3/00 1
kevin 1/4/00 2
Not sure how to do this, tried looking through the forum but didn't find
anything that seemed to apply. Suggestions appreciated.
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