If you want the Julian date, you could use Bert's index on the original data frame:
Daily[out$Q, ] Date wyr Q 4 1911-04-04 1990 5.097032 6 1911-04-06 1991 6.569508 9 1911-04-09 1992 4.445745 15 1911-04-16 1993 3.001586 18 1911-04-28 1994 3.369705 Another way to get that index would be to use by(): idx <- as.vector(by(Daily, Daily$wyr, function(x) rownames(x)[which.max(x$Q)])) Daily[idx, ] ------------------------------------- David L Carlson Department of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77840-4352 -----Original Message----- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Bert Gunter Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 9:16 PM To: Morway, Eric <emor...@usgs.gov> Cc: R mailing list <r-help@r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R] Determining which.max() within groups cumsum() seems to be what you need. This can probably be done more elegantly, but ... out <- aggregate(Q ~ wyr, data = Daily, which.max) tbl <- table(Daily$wyr) out$Q <- out$Q + cumsum(c(0,tbl[-length(tbl)])) out ## yields wyr Q 1 1990 4 2 1991 6 3 1992 9 4 1993 15 5 1994 18 I leave the matter of Julian dates to you or others. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Morway, Eric <emor...@usgs.gov> wrote: > Using the dataset below, I got close to what I'm after, but not quite all > the way there. Any suggestions appreciated: > > Daily <- read.table(textConnection(" Date wyr Q > 1911-04-01 1990 4.530695 > 1911-04-02 1990 4.700596 > 1911-04-03 1990 4.898814 > 1911-04-04 1990 5.097032 > 1911-04-05 1991 5.295250 > 1911-04-06 1991 6.569508 > 1911-04-07 1991 5.861587 > 1911-04-08 1991 5.153666 > 1911-04-09 1992 4.445745 > 1911-04-10 1992 3.737824 > 1911-04-11 1992 3.001586 > 1911-04-12 1992 3.001586 > 1911-04-13 1993 2.350298 > 1911-04-14 1993 2.661784 > 1911-04-16 1993 3.001586 > 1911-04-17 1993 2.661784 > 1911-04-19 1994 2.661784 > 1911-04-28 1994 3.369705 > 1911-04-29 1994 3.001586 > 1911-05-20 1994 2.661784"),header=TRUE) > > aggregate(Q ~ wyr, data = Daily, which.max) > > # gives: > # wyr Q > # 1 1990 4 > # 2 1991 2 > # 3 1992 1 > # 4 1993 3 > # 5 1994 2 > > I can 'see' that it is returning the which.max() relative to each > grouping. Is there a way to instead return the absolute position (row) of > the max value within each group. i.e.: > > # Would instead like to have > # wyr Q > # 1 1990 4 > # 2 1991 6 > # 3 1992 9 > # 4 1993 15 > # 5 1994 18 > > The icing on the cake would be to get the Julien Day corresponding to the > date on which each year's maximum occurs? > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.