remove the first row for each group

Question

suppose I have a dataset like this

df <- data.frame(group = c(rep(1,3),rep(2,2), rep(3,2),rep(4,3),rep(5, 2)), score = c(30, 10, 22, 44, 6, 5, 20, 35, 2,         


        

Answer 1

Another base R option would be to check the adjacent elements

df[c(FALSE,df$group[-1]==df$group[-nrow(df)]),]
#   group score
#2      1    10
#3      1    22
#5      2     6
#7      3    20
#9      4     2
#10     4    60
#12     5     5

Here I removed the first observation in 'group' (df$group[-1]) and compared (==) with the vector in which last observation is removed (df$group[-nrow(df)])). As the length of the comparison is one less than the nrow of the dataset, we pad with FALSE at the top and use this as logical index to subset the dataset.