Hello Everyone,
I need help with a project I am working on. I created a new data from the Iris data which is similar to what I am working on.,
For each patient ID, I want to calculate the change that has occurred. For example, for Sepal Length Change(ie L.Change), I have the value to be (5.0-4.9-4.0-5.1=-9). I will then put this value (-9) on the last row for that patient ID number (thus 1 in this case) and then do same for the rest of the patients.
I was hoping the code below could work then I will think of how to turn it into a function, but I am getting the error below.
I am wondering if anyone can help me with a function to solve this.I have over 900 unique ID numbers(observations) and more than 30 variables.
Error: object 'L.Change' not found
L.Change[4,]==irisn$Sepal.Length[4,]-irisn$Sepal.Length[3,]-irisn$Sepal.Length[2,]-irisn$Sepal.Length[1,]
ID Sepal.Length L.Change Sepal.Width W.Change
1 5.1 NA 3.5 NA
1 4.0 NA 4.0 NA
1 4.9 NA 5.0 NA
1 5.0 NA 9.0 NA
2 6.5 NA 7.0 NA
2 7.0 NA 6.0 NA
2 3.9 NA 8.5 NA
2 7.0 NA 7.5 NA
3 4.7 NA 3.5 NA
3 7.0 NA 2.6 NA