Re: [R] elegant way to create a sequence with the 'rep' bulit-in function

2015-05-23 Thread jdnewmil
I agree with Bert. It is not clear what is generating a need for this sequence, so it is difficult to see what aspects need to be adjustable. If this specific sequence is the only one you need, then Bert's code looks elegant to me. One note: c is a base function in R. Functions in R are

Re: [R] elegant way to create a sequence with the 'rep' bulit-in function

2015-05-23 Thread Bert Gunter
Elegance is in the eye of the beholder. But I would have thought that anything you do would be some variation of: c(rep(1:3,e=2,time=4), rep(4:5,e=4,time=3), rep(6:9,e=3,time=2) ) ## yielding [1] 1 1 2 2 3 3 1 1 2 2 3 3 1 1 2 2 3 3 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 4 [42] 4 4 4 5 5

[R] elegant way to create a sequence with the 'rep' bulit-in function

2015-05-23 Thread Kathryn Lord
Dear R users, I'd like to create a sequence/vector, for example, 1 1 2 2 3 3 1 1 2 2 3 3 1 1 2 2 3 3 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 8 9 9 9 6 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 8 9 9 9 So I did like this below. a - 4 b - 3 c - 2 grp - c( rep(1:b, each=c,

Re: [R] elegant way to create a sequence with the 'rep' bulit-in function

2015-05-23 Thread Jim Lemon
Hi Kathryn, Well, there's always: make_num_seq-function(x=list(c(from=1,to=1,by=1,each=1,times=1))) { return(c(unlist(lapply(x, function(x) return(rep(seq(x[1],x[2],by=x[3]),each=x[4],times=x[5])) } make_num_seq(list(c(1,3,1,2,4),c(4,5,1,4,3),c(6,9,1,3,2))) Jim On Sun, May 24, 2015 at