[R] Obtaining the first /or last record of a subject in a longitudinal study

[Gabor Grothendieck]

It would have helped to see an example to clarify the input and
output to the problem but !duplicated(x) will be TRUE for the first
of each set of equal values in x and !duplicated(x, fromLast = TRUE)
for the last.  See ?duplicated for details.

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Luwis Tapiwa Diya <siwulayid at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows how to obtain(subset) the first and/or the
> last record of a subject in a longitudinal setup.
>
> Normally in SAS one uses first.variable1 and last.variable1. So my question
> is that is there an R way of doing this.
>
> Regards,
>
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