Aggregate data set by year (year is the column name and the years are in the rows of the table)

Hi Scott, welcome!

You could do something like this

library(dplyr)

your_dataframe %>% 
    group_by(Year) %>% 
    summarise(Rainfall = sum(Rainfall))

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