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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 Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 12:25 PM Faradj Koliev <farad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear R-users, > > I’ve a rather complicated task to do and need all the help I can get. > > I have data indicating whether a country has signed an agreement or not > (1=yes and 0=otherwise). I want to simply create variable that would > capture the years before the agreement is signed. The aim is to see whether > pre or post agreement period has any impact on my dependent variables. > > More preciesly, I want to create the following variables: > (i) a variable that is =1 in the 4 years pre/before the agreement, 0 > otherwise; > (ii) a variable that is =1 5 years pre the agreement and > (iii) a variable that would count the 4 and 5 years pre the agreement > (1,2,3,4..). > > Please see the sample data below. I have manually added the variables I > would like to generate in R, labelled as “X1_pre4” ( 4 years before the > agreement X1), “X2_pre4”, “X1_pret5” ( 5 years before the agreement X5), > and “X1pre5_count” (which basically count the years, 1,2,3, etc). The X1 > and X2 is the agreement that countries have either signed (1) or not (0). > Note though that I want the variable to capture all the years up to 4 and > 5. If it’s only 2 years, it should still be ==1 (please see the example > below). > > To illustrate the logic: the country A has signed the agreement X1 in 1972 > in the sample data, then, the (i) and (ii) variables as above should be =1 > for the years 1970, 1971, and =0 from 1972 until the end of the study > period. > > The country A has signed the agreement X2 in 1975, then, the (i) variable > should be =1 from 1971 to 1974 (post 4 years) and (ii) should be =1 for > the 1970-1974 period (post 5 years before the agreement is signed). > > Later, I would also like to create post_4 and post_5 variables, but I > think I’ll be able to figure it out once I know how to generate the > pre/before variables. > > All suggestions are much appreciated! > > > > data<–structure(list(country = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, > 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, > 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, > 2L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, > 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L), .Label = c("A", "B", "C"), class = "factor"), > year = c(1970L, 1971L, 1972L, 1973L, 1974L, 1975L, 1976L, > 1977L, 1978L, 1979L, 1980L, 1981L, 1982L, 1983L, 1984L, 1985L, > 1986L, 1987L, 1988L, 1970L, 1971L, 1972L, 1973L, 1974L, 1975L, > 1976L, 1977L, 1978L, 1979L, 1980L, 1981L, 1982L, 1983L, 1984L, > 1985L, 1986L, 1987L, 1988L, 1970L, 1971L, 1972L, 1973L, 1974L, > 1975L, 1976L, 1977L, 1978L, 1979L, 1980L, 1981L, 1982L, 1983L, > 1984L, 1985L, 1986L, 1987L, 1988L, 1989L, 1990L, 1991L), > X1 = c(0L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, > 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, > 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, > 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, > 1L, 1L), X2 = c(0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, > 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, > 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 0L, > 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, > 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L), X1_pre4 = c(1L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, > 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, > 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, > 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, > 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L), X2_pre4 = c(0L, 1L, 1L, > 1L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, > 0L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, > 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, > 1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L), X1_pre5 = c(1L, > 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, > 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, > 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, > 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L), > X1_pre5_count = c(1L, 2L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, > 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 2L, 3L, > 4L, 5L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, > 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 0L, 0L, 0L, > 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L)), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, > -60L)) > > > > [[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. > [[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.