divide each cell by the previous one in column in R

[Hossam]

I want to divide each cell by the previous cell in the same column and generate a new calculated column that has the new values.

[siddharthprabhu]

Here is a solution using the lag() function from dplyr.

library(dplyr, warn.conflicts = FALSE)

data <- data.frame(col = c(4, 8, 32, 64))

mutate(data, new_col = col / lag(col))
#>   col new_col
#> 1   4      NA
#> 2   8       2
#> 3  32       4
#> 4  64       2

^{Created on 2020-04-18 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)}

[Hossam]

Thanks so much for your reply. it works

[siddharthprabhu]

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