Changing Duplicate Values Within Subjects: R

Question

My data looks like this:

Country	GDP	Year
A	10	1972
A	15	1973
A	20	1973
A	18	1975
B	25	1950
B	30	1951
B	35	1951
B	36	1953

I have so many observations look like data that I presented above. I want to change the duplicated years. However, I want to change first duplicated row of the year variable. I want to see my data like this:

Country	GDP	Year
A	10	1972
A	20	1973
A	15	1974
A	18	1975
B	25	1950
B	35	1951
B	30	1952
B	36	1953

Thank you for your time!

Answer 1

Here is one possible option with tidyverse:

library(tidyverse)

df %>% 
  group_by(Country, Year) %>%
  mutate(dup = case_when(n() == 1 ~ FALSE,
                         min(GDP) == GDP ~ TRUE,
                         TRUE ~ FALSE)) %>% 
  mutate(Year = ifelse(dup == TRUE, Year + 1, Year)) %>% 
  arrange(Country, Year) %>% 
  ungroup %>% 
  select(-dup)

Output

  Country   GDP  Year
  <chr>   <int> <dbl>
1 A          10  1972
2 A          20  1973
3 A          15  1974
4 A          18  1975
5 B          25  1950
6 B          35  1951
7 B          30  1952
8 B          36  1953