Thanks a lot, it works perfectly .
Bye
Paul
jholtman wrote:
>
> Is this what you want:
>
>> x
> cola colb
> 1 1 c
> 2 1 i
> 3 1 i
> 4 1 c
> 5 2 i
> 6 2 c
> 7 2 c
> 8 2 i
> 9 2 i
>> # generate run lengths
>> z <- rle(x$colb)
>> # calculate offset of each starting sequence
>> offsets <- head(cumsum(c(1, z$lengths)), -1)
>> # now determine where the 'i' is more than 1
>> long <- which(z$lengths > 1 & z$values == 'i')
>> # now replace all 'i' with 'I'
>> x$colb[x$colb == 'i'] <- 'I'
>> # replace lon runs with 'h'
>> for (i in long){
> + x$colb[(offsets[i]+1):(offsets[i] + z$lengths[i] - 1)] <-
> rep('h', z$lengths[i] - 1)
> + }
>> x
> cola colb
> 1 1 c
> 2 1 I
> 3 1 h
> 4 1 c
> 5 2 I
> 6 2 c
> 7 2 c
> 8 2 I
> 9 2 h
>>
>>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:17 AM, poul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello every body,
>> I am quite a new user of R so I beg your pardon for this naive question
>> and
>> the lake of syntax with wich I ask it:
>>
>> I have a data frames like this:
>>
>> cola colb
>> 1 c
>> 1 i
>> 1 i
>> 1 c
>> 2 i
>> 2 c
>> 2 c
>> 2 i
>> 2 i
>> ...
>> 10000
>>
>> I would like ,for each level of cola and for x in colb:
>>
>> -if colb[x]=="i" and colb[x-1] does not exist (first row in dataframes),
>> then replace colb[x] by "l"
>> -if colb[x]=="i" and colb[x-1]=="c" (previous row in data frmes), then
>> replace colb[x] by "l"
>> -if colb[x]=="i" and colb[x-1]=="i" (previous row in data frmes), then
>> replace colb[x] by "h"
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Paul
>>
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>
>
>
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> What is the problem you are trying to solve?
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