How to create a lagged variable in R for groups?

R Programming Server Side Programming Programming

Lagged variable is the type of variable that contains the previous value of the variable for which we want to create the lagged variable and the first value is neglected. Therefore, we will always have one missing value in each of the groups, if we are creating a lagged variable that depends on a grouping variable or factor variable.

Example

Consider the below data frame:

> set.seed(2)
> Factor<-rep(c("F1","F2","F3","F4"),each=5)
> Rate<-c(12,54,18,26,14,25,81,47,15,12,96,25,14,34,68,78,42,56,81,75)
> df<-data.frame(Factor,Rate)
> df
Factor Rate
1 F1 12
2 F1 54
3 F1 18
4 F1 26
5 F1 14
6 F2 25
7 F2 81
8 F2 47
9 F2 15
10 F2 12
11 F3 96
12 F3 25
13 F3 14
14 F3 34
15 F3 68
16 F4 78
17 F4 42
18 F4 56
19 F4 81
20 F4 75

Creating a lagged variable for Rate treating Factor variable as group variable −

> df$Lagged_Variable <- c(NA, df$Rate[-nrow(df)])
> df$Lagged_Variable[which(!duplicated(df$Factor))] <- NA
> df
Factor Rate Lagged_Variable
1 F1 12 NA
2 F1 54 12
3 F1 18 54
4 F1 26 18
5 F1 14 26
6 F2 25 NA
7 F2 81 25
8 F2 47 81
9 F2 15 47
10 F2 12 15
11 F3 96 NA
12 F3 25 96
13 F3 14 25
14 F3 34 14
15 F3 68 34
16 F4 78 NA
17 F4 42 78
18 F4 56 42
19 F4 81 56
20 F4 75 81

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Published on 12-Aug-2020 12:11:22

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