I am having trouble with maybe something easy but I just can't find the solution.
Suppos I have an initial value of 1,000 for a variable called TOTAL and using another column I would like to do a cumulative sum, either negative or positive values.
The problem is that I do not want to do it manually but reproducible.
This is an expected output:
Profit TOTAL
1 -10.0 990 #Started with 1,000
2 16.3 1006.3 #990 + 16.3
3 -10.0 996.3 #1006.3 - 10
4 -10.0 986.3 #And so on....
5 14.0 1000.3
6 -10.0 990.3
I tried to use cumsum function but I don't have an idea of how to implement it:
df %>% mutate(cumsum = cumsum(Profit)))
And I tried with sapply but I failed:
sapply(df[,c("TOTAL")], function(x) df$Profit[x+2] + df$TOTAL[x+1])
Any function, suggestion, or package that could solve this?
If I understand your right you need simply
df=data.frame(profit=c(-10,16.3,-10,-10,14,-10))
total=1000
df$TOTAL=total+cumsum(df$profit)
profit TOTAL
1 -10.0 990.0
2 16.3 1006.3
3 -10.0 996.3
4 -10.0 986.3
5 14.0 1000.3
6 -10.0 990.3