On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 09:05:25AM +0200, Philipp Pagel wrote: > a bad idea. Alternatively, this should work: > > foo$id <- cumsum(as.logical(diff(foo$id))) + 1
I should have explicitly said that this only works after sorting, of course. cu Philipp -- Dr. Philipp Pagel Lehrstuhl für Genomorientierte Bioinformatik Technische Universität München Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan 85350 Freising, Germany http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel ______________________________________________ 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.