Rolling mean (moving average) by group/id with dplyr

How about this?

    library(dplyr)   
    test2<-arrange(test,ID,YEAR_VISIT) %>% 
           mutate(lag1=lag(BLOOD_PRESSURE),
                  lag2=lag(BLOOD_PRESSURE,2),
                  movave=(lag1+lag2)/2)

Another solution using ‘rollapply’ function in zoo package (I like more)

library(dplyr)
library(zoo)
test2<-arrange(test,ID,YEAR_VISIT) %>%
       mutate(ma2=rollapply(BLOOD_PRESSURE,2,mean,align='right',fill=NA))

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