Use replicate to create new variable - r

Question

I have the following code:
Ni <- 133 # number of individuals
MXmeas <- 10 # number of measurements
# simulate number of observations for each individual
Nmeas <- round(runif(Ni, 1, MXmeas))
# simulate observation moments (under the assumption that everybody has at least one observation)
obs <- unlist(sapply(Nmeas, function(x) c(1, sort(sample(2:MXmeas, x-1, replace = FALSE)))))
# set up dataframe (id, observations)
dat <- data.frame(ID = rep(1:Ni, times = Nmeas), observations = obs)
This results in the following output:
ID observations
1 1
1 3
1 4
1 5
1 6
1 8
However, I also want a variable 'times' to indicate how many times of measurement there were for each individual. But since every ID has a different length, I am not sure how to implement this. This anybody know how to include that? I want it to look like this:
ID observations times
1 1 1
1 3 2
1 4 3
1 5 4
1 6 5
1 8 6

Answer 1

Using dplyr you could group by ID and use the row number for times:
library(dplyr)
dat |>
group_by(ID) |>
mutate(times = row_number()) |>
ungroup()
With base we could create the sequence based on each of the lengths of the ID variable:
dat$times <- sequence(rle(dat$ID)$lengths)
Output:
# A tibble: 734 × 3
ID observations times
<int> <dbl> <int>
1 1 1 1
2 1 3 2
3 1 9 3
4 2 1 1
5 2 5 2
6 2 6 3
7 2 8 4
8 3 1 1
9 3 2 2
10 3 5 3
# … with 724 more rows
Data (using a seed):
set.seed(1)
Ni <- 133 # number of individuals
MXmeas <- 10 # number of measurements
# simulate number of observations for each individual
Nmeas <- round(runif(Ni, 1, MXmeas))
# simulate observation moments (under the assumption that everybody has at least one observation)
obs <- unlist(sapply(Nmeas, function(x) c(1, sort(sample(2:MXmeas, x-1, replace = FALSE)))))
# set up dataframe (id, observations)
dat <- data.frame(ID = rep(1:Ni, times = Nmeas), observations = obs)