how to cumulatively add values in one vector in R

Question

I have a data set that looks like this

id  name    year    job    job2
1   Jane    1980    Worker  0
1   Jane    1981    Manager 1
1   Jane    1982    Manage         


        

Answer 1

I think this does what you want, although the data must be sorted as you have presented it.

my.df <- read.table(text = '
id  name    year    job    job2
1   Jane    1980    Worker  0
1   Jane    1981    Manager 1
1   Jane    1982    Manager 1
1   Jane    1983    Manager 1
1   Jane    1984    Manager 1
1   Jane    1985    Manager 1
1   Jane    1986    Boss    0
1   Jane    1987    Boss    0
2   Bob     1985    Worker  0
2   Bob     1986    Worker  0
2   Bob     1987    Manager 1
2   Bob     1988    Boss    0
2   Bob     1989    Boss    0
2   Bob     1990    Boss    0
2   Bob     1991    Boss    0
2   Bob     1992    Boss    0
', header = TRUE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

my.seq <- data.frame(rle(my.df$job)$lengths)

my.df$cumu_job2 <- as.vector(unlist(apply(my.seq, 1, function(x) seq(1,x))))

my.df2 <- my.df[!(my.df$job=='Boss' & my.df$cumu_job2 != 1),]
my.df2$cumu_job2[my.df2$job != 'Manager'] <- 0

   id name year     job job2 cumu_job2
1   1 Jane 1980  Worker    0         0
2   1 Jane 1981 Manager    1         1
3   1 Jane 1982 Manager    1         2
4   1 Jane 1983 Manager    1         3
5   1 Jane 1984 Manager    1         4
6   1 Jane 1985 Manager    1         5
7   1 Jane 1986    Boss    0         0
9   2  Bob 1985  Worker    0         0
10  2  Bob 1986  Worker    0         0
11  2  Bob 1987 Manager    1         1
12  2  Bob 1988    Boss    0         0