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Hmisc (version 5.1-3)

Lag: Lag a Numeric, Character, or Factor Vector

Description

Shifts a vector shift elements later. Character or factor variables are padded with "", numerics with NA. The shift may be negative.

Usage

Lag(x, shift = 1)

Value

a vector like x

Arguments

x

a vector

shift

integer specifying the number of observations to be shifted to the right. Negative values imply shifts to the left.

Author

Frank Harrell

Details

A.ttributes of the original object are carried along to the new lagged one.

See Also

Examples

Run this code
Lag(1:5,2)
Lag(letters[1:4],2)
Lag(factor(letters[1:4]),-2)
# Find which observations are the first for a given subject
id <- c('a','a','b','b','b','c')
id != Lag(id)
!duplicated(id)

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