Select specific rows based on previous row value (in the same column) - r

Question

I've been trying to figure a way to script this through R, but just can't get it. I have a dataset like this:
Trial Type Correct Latency
1 55 0 0
3 30 1 766
4 10 1 344
6 40 1 716
7 10 1 326
9 30 1 550
10 10 1 350
11 64 0 0
13 30 1 683
14 10 1 270
16 30 1 666
17 10 1 297
19 40 1 616
20 10 1 315
21 64 0 0
23 40 1 850
24 10 1 322
26 30 1 566
27 20 0 766
28 40 1 500
29 20 1 230
which goes for much longer(around 1000 rows).
From this one dataset, I would like to create 4 separate data.frames/tables I can export tables with as well as do my own calculations
I would like to have a data.frame (4 in total), one for each of these bullet points:
type 10 rows which are preceded by a type 30 row
type 10 rows which are preceded by a type 40 row
type 20 rows which are preceded by a type 30 row
type 20 rows which are preceded by a type 40 row
I would like for all the columns in the relevant rows to be placed into these new tables, but only including the column info of row types 10 or 20.
For example, the first table (type 10 preceded by type 30) would like this based on the sample data:
Trial Type Correct Latency
4 10 1 344
10 10 1 350
14 10 1 270
17 10 1 297
Second table (type 10 preceded by type 40):
Trial Type Correct Latency
7 10 1 326
20 10 1 315
24 10 1 322
Third table (type 20 preceded by type 30):
Trial Type Correct Latency
27 20 0 766
Fourth table (table 20 preceded by type 40):
Trial Type Correct Latency
29 20 1 230
I can subset just fine to get one table only of type 10 rows and another for type 20 rows, but I can't figure out how to create different tables for type 10 and 20 rows based on the previous type value. Also, an issue is that "Trials" is not in order (skips numbers).
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Also, is there a way to include the previous row as well, so the output for the fourth table would look something like this:
Fourth table (table 20 preceded by type 40):
Trial Type Correct Latency
28 40 1 500
29 20 1 230

Answer 1

For the fourth example, you could use which() in combination with lag() from dplyr, to attain the indices that meet your criteria. Then you can use these to subset the data.frame.
# Get indices of rows that meet condition
ind2 <- which(df$Type==20 & dplyr::lag(df$Type)==40)
# Get indices of rows before the ones that meet condition
ind1 <- which(df$Type==20 & dplyr::lag(df$Type)==40)-1
# Subset data
> df[c(ind1,ind2)]
Trial Type Correct Latency
1: 28 40 1 500
2: 29 20 1 230

Answer 2

Here is an example code if you always want to delete the first trials of your data.
var1 <- c(1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2)
var2 <- c(1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3)
dat <- data.frame(var1, var2)
var1 var2
1 1 1
2 2 1
3 1 1
4 2 2
5 1 2
6 2 2
7 1 2
8 2 3
9 1 3
10 2 3
#delete only this line directly
filter(dat,lag(var2)==var2)
var1 var2
1 1 1
2 2 1
3 1 1
6 2 2
7 1 2
10 2 3
#delete the first 2 trials
#make a list of all rows where var2[n-1]!=var2[n] --> using lag from dplyr
drops <- c(1,2,which(lag(dat$var2)!=dat$var2), which(lag(dat$var2)!=dat$var2)+1)
if (!identical(drops,numeric(0))) { dat <- dat[-drops,] }
var1 var2
3 1 1
6 2 2
7 1 2
10 2 3