shift.column: shift.column

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shift.column

Description

Shift a column of data

Usage

shift.column(data, columns, newNames = sprintf("%s.Shifted", columns),
  len = 1L, up = TRUE)

Arguments

data	data.frame
columns	Character vector specifying which columns to shift.
newNames	Character vector specifying new names for the columns that will be created by the shift. Must be same length as columns.
len	Integer specifying how many rows to shift the data.
up	logical indicating if rows should be shifted up or down.

Details

Shifts a column of data up or down a certain number of rows

Value

data.frame with the specified columns shifted.

Author(s)

Jared P. Lander

Examples

myData <- data.frame(Upper=LETTERS, lower=letters)
shift.column(data=myData, columns="lower")
shift.column(data=myData, columns="lower", len=2)

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