[R] why order doesn't work?
cowboy
dgecon at gmail.com
Fri Jul 27 22:22:32 CEST 2012
hi all,
I want to get a cumsum according to the order of some variable.
However, it doesnt' work.
For example,
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test<-data.frame(cbind(x=c(3,5,2,6,7),y=c(8,1,4,9,0)))
test[order(test$x),]$sumy<-cumsum(test[order(test$x),]$y)
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R complians Warning message:
In `[<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, order(test$x), , value = list(x = c(2, :
provided 3 variables to replace 2 variables.
while the following
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test$sumy<-cumsum(test[order(test$x),]$y)
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gives
x y sumy
1 3 8 4
2 5 1 12
3 2 4 13
4 6 9 22
5 7 0 22
should it gives
x y sumy
1 3 8 12
2 5 1 13
3 2 4 4
4 6 9 22
5 7 0 22
What am I missing here?
thanks,
Guang
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