Remove duplicates based on 2nd column condition - r

I am trying to remove duplicate rows from a data frame based on the max value on a different column
So, for the data frame:
df<-data.frame (rbind(c("a",2,3),c("a",3,4),c("a",3,5),c("b",1,3),c("b",2,6),c("r",4,5))
colnames(df)<-c("id","val1","val2")
id val1 val2
a 2 3
a 3 4
a 3 5
b 1 3
b 2 6
r 4 5
I would like to keep remove all duplicates by id with the condition that for the corresponding rows they do not have the maximum value for val2.
Thus the data frame should become:
a 3 5
b 2 6
r 4 5
-> remove all a duplicates but keep row with the max value for df$val2 for subset(df, df$id=="a")

Using base R. Here, the columns are factors. Make sure to convert it to numeric
df$val2 <- as.numeric(as.character(df$val2))
df[with(df, ave(val2, id, FUN=max)==val2),]
# id val1 val2
#3 a 3 5
#5 b 2 6
#6 r 4 5
Or using dplyr
library(dplyr)
df %>%
group_by(id) %>%
filter(val2==max(val2))
# id val1 val2
#1 a 3 5
#2 b 2 6
#3 r 4 5

One possible way is to use data.table
library(data.table)
setDT(df)[, .SD[which.max(val2)], by = id]
## id val1 val2
## 1: a 3 5
## 2: b 2 6
## 3: r 4 5

Here's how I hope your data is really set up
df <- data.frame (id = c(rep("a", 3), rep("b", 2), "r"),
val1 = c(2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 4), val2 = c(3, 4, 5, 3, 6, 5))
You could do a split-unsplit
> unsplit(lapply(split(df, df$id), function(x) {
if(nrow(x) > 1) {
x[duplicated(x$id) & x$val2 == max(x$val2),]
} else {
x
}
}), levels(df$id))
# id val1 val2
# 3 a 3 5
# 5 b 2 6
# 6 r 4 5
You can also use Reduce(rbind, ...) or do.call(rbind, ...) in place of unsplit

Another one
df %>% group_by(id) %>%
slice(which.max(val2))
id val1 val2
a 3 5
b 2 6
r 4 5

Related

Subsetting dataframe in grouped data

I have a dataframe including a column of factors that I would like to subset to select every nth row, after grouping by factor level. For example,
my_df <- data.frame(col1 = c(1:12), col2 = rep(c("A","B", "C"), 4))
my_df
col1 col2
1 1 A
2 2 B
3 3 C
4 4 A
5 5 B
6 6 C
7 7 A
8 8 B
9 9 C
10 10 A
11 11 B
12 12 C
Subsetting to select every 2nd row should yield my_new_df as,
col1 col2
1 4 A
2 10 A
3 5 B
4 11 B
5 6 C
6 12 C
I tried in dplyr:
my_df %>% group_by(col2) %>%
my_df[seq(2, nrow(my_df), 2), ] -> my_new_df
I get an error:
Error: Can't subset columns that don't exist.
x Locations 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 don't exist.
ℹ There are only 2 columns.
To see if the nrow function was a problem, I tried using the number directly. So,
my_df %>% group_by(col2) %>%
my_df[seq(2, 4, 2), ] -> my_new_df
Also gave an error,
Error: Can't subset columns that don't exist.
x Location 4 doesn't exist.
ℹ There are only 2 columns.
Run `rlang::last_error()` to see where the error occurred.
My expectation was that it would run the subsetting on each group of data and then combine them into 'my_new_df'. My understanding of how group_by works is clearly wrong but I am stuck on how to move past this error. Any help would much appreciated.
Try:
my_df %>%
group_by(col2)%>%
slice(seq(from = 2, to = n(), by = 2))
# A tibble: 6 x 2
# Groups: col2 [3]
col1 col2
<int> <chr>
1 4 A
2 10 A
3 5 B
4 11 B
5 6 C
6 12 C
You might want to ungroup after slicing if you want to do other operations not based on col2.
Here is a data.table option:
library(data.table)
data <- as.data.table(my_df)
data[(rowid(col2) %% 2) == 0]
col1 col2
1: 4 A
2: 5 B
3: 6 C
4: 10 A
5: 11 B
6: 12 C
Or base R:
my_df[as.logical(with(my_df, ave(col1, col2, FUN = function(x)
seq_along(x) %% 2 == 0))), ]
col1 col2
4 4 A
5 5 B
6 6 C
10 10 A
11 11 B
12 12 C

How to a create a new dataframe of consolidated values from multiple columns in R

I have a dataframe, df1, that looks like the following:
sample
99_Ape_1
93_Cat_1
87_Ape_2
84_Cat_2
90_Dog_1
92_Dog_2
A
2
3
1
7
4
6
B
5
9
7
0
3
7
C
6
8
9
2
3
0
D
3
9
0
5
8
3
I want to consolidate the dataframe by summing the values based on animal present in the header row, i.e. by "Ape", "Cat", "Dog", and end up with the following dataframe:
sample
Ape
Cat
Dog
A
3
10
10
B
12
9
10
C
15
10
3
D
3
14
11
I have created a list that represents all the animals called "animals_list"
I have then created a list of dataframes that subsets each animal into a separate dataframe with:
animals_extract <- c()
for (i in 1:length(animals_list)){
species_extract[[i]] <- df1[, grep(animals_list[i], names(df1))]
}
I am then trying to sum each variable in the row by sample:
for (i in 1:length(species_extract)){
species_extract[[i]]$total <- rowSums(species_extract[[i]])
}
and then create a dataframe 'animal_total' by binding all values in the new 'total' column.
animal_total <- NULL
for (i in 1:length(species_extract)){
animal_total[i] <- cbind(species_extract[[i]]$total)
}
Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work at all and I think I may have taken the wrong route. Any help would be really appreciated!
EDIT: my dataframe has over 300 animals, meaning incorporating use of my list of identifiers (animals_list) would be highly appreciated! I would also note that some column names do not follow the structure, "number_animal_number" and therefore I can't use a repetitive search (sorry!).
a data.table approach
library(data.table)
library(rlist)
#set data to data.table format
setDT(df1)
# split column 2:n by regex on column names
L <- split.default(df1[,-1], gsub(".*_(.*)_.*", "\\1", names(df1)[-1]))
# Bind together again
data.table(sample = df1$sample,
as.data.table(list.cbind(lapply(L, rowSums))))
# sample Ape Cat Dog
# 1: A 3 10 10
# 2: B 12 9 10
# 3: C 15 10 3
# 4: D 3 14 11
Update: After clarification:
This may work depending on the other names of your animals. but this is a start:
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
df %>%
pivot_longer(
cols = -sample
) %>%
mutate(name1 = str_extract(name, '(?<=\\_)(.*?)(?=\\_)')) %>%
group_by(sample, name1) %>%
summarise(sum=sum(value)) %>%
pivot_wider(
names_from = name1,
values_from= sum
)
Output:
sample Ape Cat Dog
<chr> <int> <int> <int>
1 A 3 10 10
2 B 12 9 10
3 C 15 10 3
4 D 3 14 11
First answer:
Here is how we could do it with dplyr:
library(dplyr)
df %>%
mutate(Cat = rowSums(select(., contains("Cat"))),
Ape = rowSums(select(., contains("Ape"))),
Dog = rowSums(select(., contains("Dog")))) %>%
select(sample, Cat, Ape, Dog)
sample Ape Cat Dog
<chr> <int> <int> <int>
1 A 3 10 10
2 B 12 9 10
3 C 15 10 3
4 D 3 14 11
An alternative data.table solution
library(data.table)
# Construct data table
dt <- as.data.table(list(sample = c("A", "B", "C", "D"),
`99_Ape_1` = c(2, 5, 6, 3),
`93_Cat_1` = c(3, 9, 8, 9),
`87_Ape_2` = c(1, 7, 9, 0),
`84_Cat_2` = c(7, 0, 2, 5),
`90_Dog_1` = c(4, 3, 3, 8),
`92_Dog_2` = c(6, 7, 0, 3)))
# Alternatively convert existing dataframe
# dt <- setDT(df)
# Use Regex pattern to drop ids from column names
names(dt) <- gsub("((^[0-9_]{3})|(_[0-9]{1}$))", "", names(dt))
# Pivot long (columns to rows)
dt <- melt(dt, id.vars = "sample")
# Aggregate sample by variable
dt <- dt[, .(value=sum(value)), by=.(sample, variable)]
# Unpivot (rows to colums)
dcast(dt, sample ~ variable)
# sample Ape Cat Dog
# 1: A 3 10 10
# 2: B 12 9 10
# 3: C 15 10 3
# 4: D 3 14 11
Alternatively, leaving the column names as is (after comment from OP to previous answer) and assuming that there are multiple observations of the same samples:
dt <- as.data.table(list(sample = c("A", "B", "C", "D", "A"),
`99_Ape_1` = c(2, 5, 6, 3, 1),
`93_Cat_1` = c(3, 9, 8, 9, 1),
`87_Ape_2` = c(1, 7, 9, 0, 1),
`84_Cat_2` = c(7, 0, 2, 5, 1),
`90_Dog_1` = c(4, 3, 3, 8, 1),
`92_Dog_2` = c(6, 7, 0, 3, 1)))
dt
# sample 99_Ape_1 93_Cat_1 87_Ape_2 84_Cat_2 90_Dog_1 92_Dog_2
# 1: A 2 3 1 7 4 6
# 2: B 5 9 7 0 3 7
# 3: C 6 8 9 2 3 0
# 4: D 3 9 0 5 8 3
# 5: A 1 1 1 1 1 1
# Pivot long (columns to rows)
dt <- melt(dt, id.vars = "sample")
# Aggregate sample by variable
dt <- dt[, .(value=sum(value)), by=.(sample, variable)]
# Unpivot (rows to colums)
dcast(dt, sample ~ variable)
# sample 99_Ape_1 93_Cat_1 87_Ape_2 84_Cat_2 90_Dog_1 92_Dog_2
# 1: A 3 4 2 8 5 7
# 2: B 5 9 7 0 3 7
# 3: C 6 8 9 2 3 0
# 4: D 3 9 0 5 8 3

Replace all NA values for variable with one row equal to 0

Slightly difficult to phrase, as far as I saw none of the similar questions answered my problem.
I have a data.frame such as:
df1 <- data.frame(id = rep(c("a", "b","c"), each = 4),
val = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, 1, 2, 2, 3,NA,2,NA,3))
df1
id val
1 a NA
2 a NA
3 a NA
4 a NA
5 b 1
6 b 2
7 b 2
8 b 3
9 c NA
10 c 2
11 c NA
12 c 3
and I want to get rid of all the NA values (easy enough using e.g. filter() ) but make sure that if this removes all of one id value (in this case it removes every instance of "a") that one extra row is inserted of (e.g.) a = 0
so that:
id val
1 a 0
2 b 1
3 b 2
4 b 2
5 b 3
6 c 2
7 c 3
obviously easy enough to do this in a roundabout way but I was wondering if there's a tidy/elegant way to do this. I thought tidyr::complete() might help but not entirely sure how to apply it to a case like this
I don't care about the order of the rows
Cheers!
edit: updated with clearer desired output. might make desired answers submitted before that a bit less clear
Another idea using dplyr,
library(dplyr)
df1 %>%
group_by(id) %>%
mutate(val = ifelse(row_number() == 1 & all(is.na(val)), 0, val)) %>%
na.omit()
which gives,
# A tibble: 5 x 2
# Groups: id [2]
id val
<fct> <dbl>
1 a 0
2 b 1
3 b 2
4 b 2
5 b 3
We may do
df1 %>% group_by(id) %>% do(if(all(is.na(.$val))) replace(.[1, ], 2, 0) else na.omit(.))
# A tibble: 5 x 2
# Groups: id [2]
# id val
# <fct> <dbl>
# 1 a 0
# 2 b 1
# 3 b 2
# 4 b 2
# 5 b 3
After grouping by id, if everything in val is NA, then we leave only the first row with the second element replaced by 0, otherwise the same data is returned after applying na.omit.
In a more readable format that would be
df1 %>% group_by(id) %>%
do(if(all(is.na(.$val))) data.frame(id = .$id[1], val = 0) else na.omit(.))
(Here I presume that you indeed want to get rid of all NA values; otherwise there is no need for na.omit.)
df1[is.na(df1)] <- 0
df1[!(duplicated(df1$id) & df1$val == 0), ]
id val
1 a 0
5 b 1
6 b 2
7 b 2
8 b 3
Base R option is to find groups with all NAs and transform them by changing their val to 0 and select only unique rows so that there is only one row per group. We rbind this dataframe with the groups which are !all_NA.
all_NA <- with(df1, ave(is.na(val), id, FUN = all))
rbind(unique(transform(df1[all_NA, ], val = 0)), df1[!all_NA, ])
# id val
#1 a 0
#5 b 1
#6 b 2
#7 b 2
#8 b 3
dplyr option looks ugly but one way is to make two groups of dataframes one with groups of all NA values and other with groups of all non-NA values. For groups with all NA values we add row with it's id and val as 0 and bind this to the other group.
library(dplyr)
bind_rows(df1 %>%
group_by(id) %>%
filter(all(!is.na(val))),
df1 %>%
group_by(id) %>%
filter(all(is.na(val))) %>%
ungroup() %>%
summarise(id = unique(id),
val = 0)) %>%
arrange(id)
# id val
# <fct> <dbl>
#1 a 0
#2 b 1
#3 b 2
#4 b 2
#5 b 3
Changed the df to make example more exhaustive -
df1 <- data.frame(id = rep(c("a", "b","c"), each = 4),
val = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, 1, 2, 2, 3,NA,2,NA,3))
library(dplyr)
df1 %>%
group_by(id) %>%
mutate(case=sum(is.na(val))==n(), row_num=row_number() ) %>%
mutate(val=ifelse(is.na(val)&case,0,val)) %>%
filter( !(case&row_num!=1) ) %>%
select(id, val)
Output
id val
<fct> <dbl>
1 a 0
2 b 1
3 b 2
4 b 2
5 b 3
6 c NA
7 c 2
8 c NA
9 c 3
Another base approach, one that doesn't maintain the order of the rows and takes advantage of factors remembering lost values:
df1 <- na.omit(df1)
df1 <- rbind(
df1,
data.frame(
id = levels(df1$id)[!levels(df1$id) %in% df1$id],
val = 0)
)
I do personally prefer the dplyr approach given by Sotos, as I don't like rbind-ing data.frames back together so it's a matter of taste, but this isn't unbearably complicated by my eye. It's easy enough to adapt to a character id column with a unique(df1$id) variable.
Here is an option too:
df1 %>%
mutate_if(is.factor,as.character) %>%
mutate_all(funs(replace(.,is.na(.),0))) %>%
slice(4:nrow(.))
This gives:
id val
1 a 0
2 b 1
3 b 2
4 b 2
5 b 3
Alternative:
df1 %>%
mutate_if(is.factor,as.character) %>%
mutate_all(funs(replace(.,is.na(.),0))) %>%
unique()
UPDATE based on other requirements:
Some users suggested to test on this dataframe. Of course this answer assumes you'll look at everything by hand. Might be less useful if you have to look at everything by "hand" but here goes:
df1 <- data.frame(id = rep(c("a", "b","c"), each = 4), val = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, 1, 2, 2, 3,NA,2,NA,3))
df1 %>%
mutate_if(is.factor,as.character) %>%
mutate(val=ifelse(id=="a",0,val)) %>%
slice(4:nrow(.))
This yields:
id val
1 a 0
2 b 1
3 b 2
4 b 2
5 b 3
6 c NA
7 c 2
8 c NA
9 c 3
Here is a base R solution.
res <- lapply(split(df1, df1$id), function(DF){
if(anyNA(DF$val)) {
i <- is.na(DF$val)
DF$val[i] <- 0
DF <- rbind(DF[i & !duplicated(DF[i, ]), ], DF[!i, ])
}
DF
})
res <- do.call(rbind, res)
row.names(res) <- NULL
res
# id val
#1 a 0
#2 b 1
#3 b 2
#4 b 2
#5 b 3
Edit.
A dplyr solution could be the following.
It was tested with the original dataset posted by the OP, with the dataset in Vivek Kalyanarangan's answer and with the dataset in markus' comment, renamed df2 and df3, respectively.
library(dplyr)
na2zero <- function(DF){
DF %>%
group_by(id) %>%
mutate(val = ifelse(is.na(val), 0, val),
crit = val == 0 & duplicated(val)) %>%
filter(!crit) %>%
select(-crit)
}
na2zero(df1)
na2zero(df2)
na2zero(df3)
One may try this :
df1 = data.frame(id = rep(c("a", "b","c"), each = 4),
val = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, 1, 2, 2, 3,NA,2,NA,3))
df1
# id val
#1 a NA
#2 a NA
#3 a NA
#4 a NA
#5 b 1
#6 b 2
#7 b 2
#8 b 3
#9 c NA
#10 c 2
#11 c NA
#12 c 3
Task is to remove all rows corresponding to any id IFF val for the corresponding id is all NAs and add new row with this id and val = 0.
In this example, id = a.
Note : val for c also has NAs but all the val corresponding to c are not NA therefore we need to remove the corresponding row for c where val = NA.
So lets create another column say, val2 which indicates 0 means its all NAs and 1 otherwise.
library(dplyr)
df1 = df1 %>%
group_by(id) %>%
mutate(val2 = if_else(condition = all(is.na(val)),true = 0, false = 1))
df1
# A tibble: 12 x 3
# Groups: id [3]
# id val val2
# <fct> <dbl> <dbl>
#1 a NA 0
#2 a NA 0
#3 a NA 0
#4 a NA 0
#5 b 1 1
#6 b 2 1
#7 b 2 1
#8 b 3 1
#9 c NA 1
#10 c 2 1
#11 c NA 1
#12 c 3 1
Get the list of ids with corresponding val = NA for all.
all_na = unique(df1$id[df1$val2 == 0])
Then remove theids from the dataframe df1 with val = NA.
df1 = na.omit(df1)
df1
# A tibble: 6 x 3
# Groups: id [2]
# id val val2
# <fct> <dbl> <dbl>
# 1 b 1 1
# 2 b 2 1
# 3 b 2 1
# 4 b 3 1
# 5 c 2 1
# 6 c 3 1
And create a new dataframe with ids in all_na and val = 0
all_na_df = data.frame(id = all_na, val = 0)
all_na_df
# id val
# 1 a 0
then combine these two dataframes.
df1 = bind_rows(all_na_df, df1[,c('id', 'val')])
df1
# id val
# 1 a 0
# 2 b 1
# 3 b 2
# 4 b 2
# 5 b 3
# 6 c 2
# 7 c 3
Hope this helps and Edits are most welcomed :-)

R: Conditionally replacing values based on column pre-fixes and suffixes

I have two data frames. Data frame A has many observations/rows, an ID for each observation, and many additional columns. For a subset of observations X, the values for a set of columns are missing/NA. Data frame B contains a subset of the observations in X (which can be matched across data frames using the ID) and variables with identical names as in data frame A, but containing values to replace the missing values in the set of columns with missing/NA.
My code below (using a join operation) merely adds columns rather than replacing missing values. For each of the additional variables (let's name them W) in B, the resulting table produces W.x and W.y.
library(dplyr)
foo <- data.frame(id = seq(1:6), x = c(NA, NA, NA, 1, 3, 8), z = seq_along(10:15))
bar <- data.frame(id = seq(1:2), x = c(10, 9))
dplyr::left_join(x = foo, y = bar, by = "id")
I am trying to replace the missing values in A using the values in B based on the ID, but do so in an efficient manner since I have many columns and many rows. My goal is this:
id x z
1 1 10 1
2 2 9 2
3 3 NA 3
4 4 1 4
5 5 3 5
6 6 8 6
One thought was to use ifelse() after joining, but typing out ifelse() functions for all of the variables is not feasible. Is there a way to do this simply without the database join or is there a way to apply a function across all columns ending in .x to replace the values in .x with the value in .y if the value in .x is missing?
Another attempt which should essentially only be one assignment operation. Using #alistaire's data again:
vars <- c("x","y")
foo[vars] <- Map(pmax, foo[vars], bar[match(foo$id, bar$id), vars], na.rm=TRUE)
foo
# id x y z
#1 1 10 1 1
#2 2 9 2 2
#3 3 NA 3 3
#4 4 1 4 4
#5 5 3 5 5
#6 6 8 6 6
EDIT
Updating the answer taking #alistaire 's example dataframe.
We can extend the same answer given below using mapply so that it can handle multiple columns for both foo and bar.
Finding out common columns between two dataframes and sorting them so they are in the same order.
vars <- sort(intersect(names(foo), names(bar))[-1])
foo[vars] <- mapply(function(x, y) {
ind = is.na(x)
replace(x, ind, y[match(foo$id[ind], bar$id)])
}, foo[vars], bar[vars])
foo
# id x y z
#1 1 10 1 1
#2 2 9 2 2
#3 3 NA 3 3
#4 4 1 4 4
#5 5 3 5 5
#6 6 8 6 6
Original Answer
I think this does what you are looking for :
foo[-1] <- sapply(foo[-1], function(x) {
ind = is.na(x)
replace(x, ind, bar$x[match(foo$id[ind], bar$id)])
})
foo
# id x z
#1 1 10 1
#2 2 9 2
#3 3 NA 3
#4 4 1 4
#5 5 3 5
#6 6 8 6
For every column (except id) we find the missing value in foo and replace it with corresponding values from bar.
If you don't mind verbose baseR approaches, then you can easily accomplish this using merge() and a careful subsetting of your data frame.
df <- merge(foo, bar, by="id", all.x=TRUE)
names(df) <- c("id", "x", "z", "y")
df$x[is.na(df$x)] <- df$y[is.na(df$x)]
df <- df[c("id", "x", "z")]
> df
id x z
1 1 10 1
2 2 9 2
3 3 NA 3
4 4 1 4
5 5 3 5
6 6 8 6
You can iterate dplyr::coalesce over the intersect of non-grouping columns. It's not elegant, but it should scale reasonably well:
library(tidyverse)
foo <- data.frame(id = seq(1:6),
x = c(NA, NA, NA, 1, 3, 8),
y = 1:6, # add extra shared variable
z = seq_along(10:15))
bar <- data.frame(id = seq(1:2),
y = c(1L, NA),
x = c(10, 9))
# names of non-grouping variables in both
vars <- intersect(names(foo), names(bar))[-1]
foobar <- left_join(foo, bar, by = 'id')
foobar <- vars %>%
map(paste0, c('.x', '.y')) %>% # make list of columns to coalesce
map(~foobar[.x]) %>% # for each set, subset foobar to a two-column data.frame
invoke_map(.f = coalesce) %>% # ...and coalesce it into a vector
set_names(vars) %>% # add names to list elements
bind_cols(foobar) %>% # bind into data.frame and cbind to foobar
select(union(names(foo), names(bar))) # drop duplicated columns
foobar
#> # A tibble: 6 x 4
#> id x y z
#> <int> <dbl> <int> <int>
#> 1 1 10 1 1
#> 2 2 9 2 2
#> 3 3 NA 3 3
#> 4 4 1 4 4
#> 5 5 3 5 5
#> 6 6 8 6 6

split, apply and combine on 2 columns of data

I've got a dataframe consisting of a group and 2 value columns, as such:
group val1 val2
A 5 3
A 2 4
A 3 1
B 3 6
B 2 1
B 0 2
I want to work out the number of rows where val1 > val2, split by subset. Initially I hardcoded this per subgroup with:
number_a <- nrow(subset(df, group=="A" & val1 > val2))
number_b <- nrow(subset(df, group=="B" & val1 > val2))
What's the proper way of automating this? I tried using the split() function but I couldn't work out how to pass in both val1 and val2 column.
Pretty straight forward using data.table
If you want the number of rows
library(data.table)
setDT(df)[, .(RowsNum = sum(val1 > val2)), by = group]
# group RowsNum
# 1: A 2
# 2: B 1
If you looking for split, apply combinations in base R, could also try
sapply(split(df[-1], df[1]), function(x) sum(x[1] > x[2]))
# A B
# 2 1
Or using tapply (also from base R)
tapply(with(df, val1 > val2), df[1], sum)
# group
# A B
# 2 1
If you want the rows themselves
setDT(df)[, .SD[val1 > val2]]
# group val1 val2
# 1: A 5 3
# 2: A 3 1
# 3: B 2 1
Or very simple with base R too
df[with(df, val1 > val2), ]
# group val1 val2
# 1 A 5 3
# 3 A 3 1
# 5 B 2 1
Or
subset(df, val1 > val2)
# group val1 val2
# 1 A 5 3
# 3 A 3 1
# 5 B 2 1
Another option using dplyr
library(dplyr)
filter(df, val1 >val2)
# group val1 val2
#1 A 5 3
#2 A 3 1
#3 B 2 1
If you need the nrows
df %>%
group_by(group) %>%
filter(val1 >val2) %>%
summarise(RowsNum=n())
# group RowsNum
#1 A 2
#2 B 1
Or using aggregate from base R
aggregate(cbind(RowsNum = val1 > val2) ~ group, df, sum)
# group RowsNum
#1 A 2
#2 B 1
You can try this
data <- data.frame(group,val1,val2)
attach(data)
aggregate(val1~group,data[which(val1 > val2),],length)

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