Peter,

After I made a small modification it worked:
with(dat, ave(x1, subject, FUN=cumsum))

But what's the use of with?
If I use ave(x1, subject, FUN=cumsum), I get the same result?

Bart

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bart Joosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Peter Dalgaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: [R] count the cumulative for each subject


Peter,

I actually took a look at the ave function, but couldn't manage to get it right. But when I try your code, I get "Error in as.vector(x, mode) : invalid argument 'mode'".
Any ideas?

Bart

----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Dalgaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "bartjoosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [R] count the cumulative for each subject


bartjoosen wrote:
How about:

tapply(dat$x1,dat$subject,function(x) cumsum(x))
which gives you a list for each subject.

this can be converted to a vector:
do.call("c",tapply(dat$x1,dat$subject,function(x) cumsum(x)))

So if your data frame is ordered for your subjects:

cbind(your.data.frame,do.call("c",tapply(dat$x1,dat$subject,function(x)
cumsum(x))))



Sounds like a job for the eternally overlookked ave() function:

with(dat, ave(x1, subject, cumsum))


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