[R] I need help for creating a "timevar"

[Joshua Wiley]

Hi Karen,

As long as your IDENTITY column goes up in order, this should work:

## example data
dat <- data.frame(IDENTITY = rep(101:103, 3:1), EVENT = "Event")
dat$TIMEVAR <- unlist(with(dat, tapply(EVENT, IDENTITY, seq_along)))
## Result
dat

See ?tapply and ?seq_along for some documentation

Hope this helps,

Josh

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 6:41 AM, kbr <kb at flicon.de> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I have data in „Long“ format which I would like to reshape to „Wide“. I know
> that one possibility is the „reshape“ command, which needs a „timevar“.
>
> Data look as follows: There are approx. 3000 persons („IDENTITY“) and, for
> each person, there are between 2 and 20 events („EVENT“).  For now, there's
> one row for each event (9506 rows)
>
> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n3643658/Screenshot-2.png
>
> What is missing is the „timevar“ (SPSS calls it „INDEX“), which numbers the
> events WITHIN each person (right column).
>
> I managed to number the events from 1 to 9506 with the seq-command, first
> writing the number of rows in nEVENT:
>> number <-seq(file=event, 1, nEVENT, b=1)
> Yet, I didn't manage to do so for each individual separately. I guess it
> would be possible with the „split“ command, but I can't figure out how to
> apply it.
>
> Can anyone give me a hint?
> Thank you!
>
> Karen
>
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