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On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 9:41 AM, Gerrit Eichner <gerrit.eich...@math.uni-giessen.de> wrote: Hello, Alaois, if x is your vector maybe n <- length( x) positions <- trunc( quantile( seq( n), prob = 0:5/5)) x[ positions] comes close to what you want. Hth -- Gerrit > Hi all, I have in my code some vectors that are not of equal size. I > would like to be able for each of these vectors select 6 elements that > are (almost) equally spaced. So the first one would be at (or close) to > the beginning the last one at (or close) to the end and the other 4 > equally spaced between first and last element. > > How can I do something like that on a vector of not known size? > > I would like to thank you in advance for your help > > Regards > Alex > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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