Dear Sir,
Thanks a lot for your valuable suggestions and help.
Regards
Katherine
--- On Wed, 17/4/13, Jim Lemon <j...@bitwrit.com.au> wrote:
From: Jim Lemon <j...@bitwrit.com.au>
Subject: Re: [R] Creating a vector with repeating dates
To: "Katherine Gobin" <katherine_go...@yahoo.com>
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Date: Wednesday, 17 April, 2013, 10:35 AM
On 04/17/2013 07:11 PM, Katherine Gobin wrote:
> Dear R forum
>
> I have a data.frame
>
> df = data.frame(dates = c("4/15/2013", "4/14/2013", "4/13/2013",
> "4/12/2013"), values = c(47, 38, 56, 92))
>
> I need to to create a vector by repeating the dates as
>
> "Current_date", 4/15/2013, 4/14/2013, 4/13/2013, 4/12/2013, "Current_date",
> 4/15/2013, 4/14/2013, 4/13/2013, 4/12/2013, Current_date, 4/15/2013,
> 4/14/2013, 4/13/2013, 4/12/2013
>
> i.e. I need to create a new vector as given below which I need to use for
> some other purpose.
>
> Current_date
> 4/15/2013
> 4/14/2013
> 4/13/2013
> 4/12/2013
> Current_date
> 4/15/2013
> 4/14/2013
> 4/13/2013
> 4/12/2013
> Current_date
> 4/15/2013
> 4/14/2013
> 4/13/2013
> 4/12/2013
>
> Is it possible to construct such a
> column?
>
Hi Katherine,
How about:
rep(c("Current date",paste(4,15:12,2013,sep="/")),3)
Jim
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