ooh.. I have another question.
What if I want to add the value in the vector a to the hello each time it
prints.
Here is your output
a <- c(2,3,5,5,5,6,6,7)
mapply(rep, "hello", rle(a)$lengths, USE.NAMES = FALSE)
[[1]]
[1] "hello"
[[2]]
[1] "hello"
[[3]]
[1] "hello" "hello" "hello"
[[4]]
[1] "hello" "hello"
[[5]]
[1] "hello"
If I want something like this, based on values in vector a.
[[1]]
[1] "hello 2"
[[2]]
[1] "hello 3"
[[3]]
[1] "hello 5" "hello 5" "hello 5"
[[4]]
[1] "hello 6" "hello 6"
[[5]]
[1] "hello 7"
What i am actually doing is hmm.. I have a bunch of text files which is
output from another program. I want to extract some specific information
from these files and write to a new file and save it.
All these files have a certain variable k which maybe 2, or 3 or 5 etc. The
vector a shows the k values of 8 of such files. I want the contents of all
files with k value 5 to be written into one file.
Thanks,
Roy
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Erik Iverson <er...@ccbr.umn.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Roy Mathew wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reply Erik, As you mentioned, grouping consecutive elements
>> of 'a' was my idea. I am unaware of any R'ish way to do it. It would be nice
>> if someone in the community knows this.
>>
>
> Is this the idea you're trying to execute? It uses ?rle and ?mapply.
>
>
> a <- c(2,3,5,5,5,6,6,7)
> mapply(rep, "hello", rle(a)$lengths, USE.NAMES = FALSE)
>
> [[1]]
> [1] "hello"
>
> [[2]]
> [1] "hello"
>
> [[3]]
> [1] "hello" "hello" "hello"
>
> [[4]]
> [1] "hello" "hello"
>
> [[5]]
> [1] "hello"
>
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Best Regards,
Roy
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