Absolutely fantastic! Thank you for the TWO approachs.
2014-05-28 19:13 GMT-03:00 Andrija Djurovic <djandr...@gmail.com>: > Here is another approach: > > x <- rep(c("A", "B", "C"), c(3,1,2)) > DF1 <- data.frame(x) > cbind(DF1, new_c=ave(as.numeric(DF1$x), DF1$x, FUN=function(x) > 1:length(x))) > > Note the difference between DF (in previous solution) and DF1 > str(DF) > str(DF1) > > > Andrija > > > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:03 AM, Andrija Djurovic <djandr...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi. Here is one approach: >> >> x <- rep(c("A", "B", "C"), c(3,1,2)) >> DF <- data.frame(x, stringsAsFactors=FALSE) >> cbind(DF, new_c=c(lapply(rle(DF$x)[[1]], function(x) 1:x), recursive=T)) >> >> Andrija >> >> >> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Marcos Santos <mmsantos...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> I have a "data frame" like this: >>> >>> Category Observed_value A 100 A 130 A 140 B 90 C 80 D 120 D 130 >>> >>> I need to create an index column that show the number of the observation >>> for each category. I have three observations in the category A, one in >>> category B, one in category C and two in category D. The new matrix >>> should >>> be like this: >>> >>> >>> Category Observed_value Index A 100 1 A 130 2 A 140 3 B 90 1 C 80 >>> 1 >>> D 120 1 D 130 2 >>> >>> Please, could anyone help me with this problem? >>> >>> Thank you. >>> -- >>> Marcos Martins Santos >>> mmsantos...@gmail.com >>> -- >>> Skype: marcosmartinssantos >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >>> >> >> > -- Marcos Martins Santos mmsantos...@gmail.com -- Tel. (85) 3044-7436 Cel. (85) 9636-6612 -- Skype: marcosmartinssantos [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.