Its not clear what "more flexible refers to".  The posted solution
already produces the sample output you showed.  What else
should it do?

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Tammy Ma <metal_lical...@live.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot for your reply.
>
> I expect a more flexible solution. Because I couldn't check that column one
> by one.
>
> If another Rep colum is:
> useractivity_act
> 2
> 2
> 3
> 3
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 5
> 6
> useractivity_idle
> i should be able to write a program to make it as:
> useractivity_act
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 6
> useractivity_idle
>
> Only keep 1st value of repeated values.
> I have been working no it for a while....Still didnt get solution.
> Thanks for your concentration.
>
> Tammy
>
>> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:03:11 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [R] who can give me some hint?
>> From: ggrothendi...@gmail.com
>> To: metal_lical...@live.com
>> CC: r-help@r-project.org
>>
>> I assume the problem is to only keep those rows whose
>> Rep value is not equal to the Rep value in the prior row.
>> In that case just compare c("", Rep[-nr]) to Rep and
>> use the resulting vector, ix, to select out rows.
>> Rep <- as.character(act_2$Rep) could
>> be simplified to Rep <- act_2$Rep if Rep
>> is already known to be "character".
>>
>>
>> Lines <- "Date Dtime Hour Min Second Rep
>> 51 2006-02-22 14:52:18 14 52 18 useractivity_act
>> 52 2006-02-22 14:52:18 14 52 18 4
>> 55 2006-02-22 14:52:49 14 52 49 4
>> 57 2006-02-22 14:52:51 14 52 51 4
>> 58 2006-02-22 14:52:52 14 52 52 3
>> 60 2006-02-22 14:54:42 14 54 42 useractivity_idle"
>>
>> act_2 <- read.table(textConnection(Lines), header = TRUE, as.is = TRUE)
>>
>> nr <- nrow(act_2)
>> Rep <- as.character(act_2$Rep)
>> ix <- Rep != c("", Rep[-nr])
>> act_2[ix]
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Tammy Ma <metal_lical...@live.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >  Hi All,
>> >
>> >
>> >> act_2
>> >         Date    Dtime Hour Min Second               Rep
>> > 51 2006-02-22 14:52:18   14  52     18  useractivity_act
>> > 52 2006-02-22 14:52:18   14  52     18                 4
>> > 55 2006-02-22 14:52:49   14  52     49                 4
>> > 57 2006-02-22 14:52:51   14  52     51                 4
>> > 58 2006-02-22 14:52:52   14  52     52                 3
>> > 60 2006-02-22 14:54:42   14  54     42 useractivity_idle
>> >
>> > I want to change act_2 to
>> >         Date    Dtime Hour Min Second               Rep
>> >
>> > 51 2006-02-22 14:52:18   14  52     18  useractivity_act
>> >
>> > 52 2006-02-22 14:52:18   14  52     18                 4
>> > 58 2006-02-22 14:52:52   14  52     52                 3
>> > 60 2006-02-22 14:54:42   14  54     42 useractivity_idle
>> >
>> > in other word, I want to keep 1st if there are many repeated value, I
>> > made the program as:
>> >
>> >
>> > rm_r<-function(act_2){
>> >  dm<-dim(act_2)[1]-1
>> >  for(i in 2:dm){
>> >
>> >  if(act_2$Rep[i+1]==act_2$Rep[i]){
>> >   act_2<-act_2[-(i+1),]
>> >   }else{
>> >   act_2<-act_2
>> >   }
>> >  }
>> > return(act_2)
>> > }
>> >
>> > when it moved one row on 1st loop, i should still start 2 but it become
>> > 3 at 2nd loop, if I add i<-i-1, then i go to 1
>> > seems not reasonbale. How should I modify it`?
>> >
>> > Tammy
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