Re: [R] odd, even indices of a vector

2014-07-21 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi Carol, On 07/21/2014 01:33 PM, carol white wrote: Might be a trivial question but how to identify the odd and even indices of a vector? x = c(1,z,w,2,6,7) el of odd indices= 1,w,6 el of even indices= z,2,7 The easiest way is to subset your vector with c(TRUE, FALSE) to keep only the odd

Re: [R] odd, even indices of a vector

2014-07-21 Thread Bert Gunter
Ms. White: Unless I have seriously misjudged, you really really really need to go through an R tutorial -- An Intro to R ships with R, but there are many on the web -- before posting here further. You do not appear to have made much of an effort to learn even the basics, and I consider it unfair t

Re: [R] odd, even indices of a vector

2014-07-21 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
## these functions assume the argument is integer odd <- function(x) x%%2 != 0 even <- function(x) x%%2 == 0 evenb <- function(x) !odd(x) odd(1:10) even(1:10) evenb(1:10) On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:33 PM, carol white wrote: > Might be a trivial question but how to identify the odd and even ind

[R] odd, even indices of a vector

2014-07-21 Thread carol white
Might be a trivial question but how to identify the odd and even indices of a vector? x = c(1,z,w,2,6,7) el of odd indices= 1,w,6 el of even indices= z,2,7 given the def of odd and even in https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-July/244299.html should a loop be used? for (i in 1: length(