I have a large dataset with longitudinal readings from single individuals. I want to summarise information over time into a binary variable. i.e. if diff in the input table below is >5 for any value I want to then reduce the observation for A to a new column saying TRUE.
#Input
individual val1 val2 diff
A 32 36 -4
A 36 28 8
A 28 26 2
A 26 26 0
B 65 64 1
B 58 59 -1
B 57 54 3
B 54 51 3
#Output
individual newval
A TRUE
B FALSE