[R] Event History Data Recoding

[Thomas Jensen]

Dear R list,

I have an event history data set that is structured like this:

Legislative act     Discussion     Agreement     Time     Event
Act1                2006-05-30     2006-06-19     20        1
Act2                2004-03-01     2004-06-14     105       1
.                   
.
.

I have information on the meetings in the legislature between adoption
periods in a separate variable (the start and stop dates are included):

Act1 meeting:2006-05-30, 2006-06-19.
Act2 meeting: 2004-03-22, 2004-04-26, 2004-06-14.

I want to code this as a discrete event data set, so it should look like
this:

Legislative act     Event     Meeting     Time Count
Act1                  0       2006-05-30      1
Act1                  1       2006-06-07      2
Act2                  0       2004-03-22      1
Act2                  0       2004-04-26      2
Act2                  1       2004-06-14      3

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to do this recoding in R, or do I
have to do it by hand?

Best, Thomas