Tena koe Anna The following appears to do what you want (anna is a dataframe containing the data you provided):
anna$Test <- anna$Signals anna[duplicated(paste(anna$Dates, anna$Signals)),'Test'] <- 0 anna Dates Signals Filtered.Signal Test 1 02-11-06 0 0 0 2 02-11-06 1 1 1 3 02-11-06 0 0 0 4 02-11-06 1 0 0 5 02-11-06 1 0 0 6 02-11-06 0 0 0 7 03-11-06 1 1 1 8 03-11-06 1 0 0 9 03-11-06 0 0 0 10 03-11-06 1 0 0 11 03-11-06 0 0 0 HTH .... Peter Alspach > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of anna > Sent: Thursday, 4 March 2010 8:20 a.m. > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] filtering signals per day > > > Hello R lovers, > I have a vector of dates and signals. I want to filter the > signals per day in a way that only the first signal of the > day remains like this: > Dates Signals Filtered Signal > 2006-11-02 0 0 > 2006-11-02 1 1 > 2006-11-02 0 0 > 2006-11-02 1 0 > 2006-11-02 1 0 > 2006-11-02 0 0 > 2006-11-03 1 1 > 2006-11-03 1 0 > 2006-11-03 0 0 > 2006-11-03 1 0 > 2006-11-03 0 0 > > The thing is that I want to do it with matrix functions and > not doing a loop but I still have no clue even after having > spent time on it. Can somebody please help me? thank you! > > > > ----- > Anna Lippel > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/filtering-signals-per-day-tp1577044p1577044.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.