[R] difference

[Jeff Newmiller]

Now would be an excellent time to read the help page for ?ave. You can specify multiple grouping variables. 
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On October 28, 2016 7:28:44 PM PDT, Ashta <sewashm at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi all thank you very much for your help. Worked very well for that
>data set. I just found out that one of the data sets have another
>level and do the same thing, I want to calculate the difference
>between successive row values (num)  to the first row value within
>city and year.
>
>city, year, num
>1, 2001,    25
>1, 2001,    75
>1, 2001,    150
>1, 2002,    35
>1, 2002,    65
>1, 2002,    120
>2, 2001,    25
>2, 2001,    95
>2, 2001,    150
>2, 2002,    35
>2, 2002,    110
>2, 2002,    120
>
>The result will be
>
>city,year,num,Diff
>1, 2001,    25, 0
>1, 2001,    75, 50
>1, 2001,    150, 125
>1, 2002,    35, 0
>1, 2002,    65, 30
>1, 2002,    120, 85
>2, 2001,    25, 0
>2, 2001,    95, 70
>2, 2001,    150, 125
>2, 2002,    35, 0
>2, 2002,    110, 75
>2, 2002,    120, 85
>
>Thank you again
>
>
>On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 4:08 AM, P Tennant <philipt900 at iinet.net.au>
>wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> You could use an anonymous function to operate on each `year-block'
>of your
>> dataset, then assign the result as a new column:
>>
>> d <- data.frame(year=c(rep(2001, 3), rep(2002, 3)),
>>                 num=c(25,75,150,30,85,95))
>>
>> d$diff <- unlist(by(d$num, d$year, function(x) x - x[1]))
>> d
>>
>>   year num diff
>> 1 2001  25    0
>> 2 2001  75   50
>> 3 2001 150  125
>> 4 2002  30    0
>> 5 2002  85   55
>> 6 2002  95   65
>>
>>
>> Philip
>>
>>
>> On 28/10/2016 3:20 PM, Ashta wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I want to calculate the difference  between successive row values to
>>> the first row value within year.
>>> How do I get that?
>>>
>>>   Here is    the sample of data
>>> Year   Num
>>> 2001    25
>>> 2001    75
>>> 2001   150
>>> 2002    30
>>> 2002    85
>>> 2002    95
>>>
>>> Desired output
>>> Year   Num  diff
>>> 2001    25       0
>>> 2001    75      50
>>> 2001  150    125
>>> 2002    30        0
>>> 2002    85      55
>>> 2002    95      65
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
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