On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Matthew Dowle <mdo...@mdowle.plus.com> wrote: > Sounds like a good idea. Would it be possible to give an example of how to > combine plyr with data.table, and why that is better than a data.table only > solution ?
Well, ideally, you'd do: adt <- data.table(a) ans2 <- ddply(a, c("var1", "var2", "var3"), subset, dt - min(dt) < 7) and ddply would take care of the details. Why would it be better? Because plyr works for all data types: data frames, lists and arrays. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.