Look into dplyr
https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/dplyr/vignettes/introduction.html
install.packages("dplyr")
library(dplyr)
df <- df %>% mutate(phys_pos=cumsum(length)+position)
I am assuming your data.frame
is named df
Or with base R
df$phys_pos <- cumsum(df$length) + df$position
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solved In R; I would like to do something in R rather than excel because excel can’t handle the calculation. In excel the calculation is: =A2+SUM($B$2:B2)