How to create lag variables

Question

I want to create lagged variable for a variable pm10 and used the following code. However, I could not get what I wanted. How could I create a lag of pm10?

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Answer 1

Another alternative is using the shift-function from the data.table package:

library(data.table)
setDT(df2)[, c("l1pm10","l1pm102") := .(shift(pm10, 1L, fill = NA, type = "lag"),
                                        shift(pm10, 1L, fill = NA, type = "lead"))]

this gives:

> df2
    var1     pm10   l1pm10  l1pm102
 1:    1 26.95607       NA       NA
 2:    2       NA 26.95607 32.83869
 3:    3 32.83869       NA 39.95607
 4:    4 39.95607 32.83869       NA
 5:    5       NA 39.95607 40.95607
 6:    6 40.95607       NA 33.95607
 7:    7 33.95607 40.95607 28.95607
 8:    8 28.95607 33.95607 32.34877
 9:    9 32.34877 28.95607       NA
10:   10       NA 32.34877       NA

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Used data:

df2 <- structure(list(var1 = 1:10, pm10 = c(26.956073733, NA, 32.838694951, 
39.9560737332, NA, 40.9560737332, 33.956073733, 28.956073733, 
32.348770798, NA)), .Names = c("var1", "pm10"), row.names = c("1", 
"2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10"), class = "data.frame")