question R regarding consecutive numbers
On 27/10/2011 8:43 AM, Samir Benzerfa wrote:
Hi everyone Do you know about any possibility in R to check for consecutive numbers in vectors? That is, I do not only want to count the number of observations in total (which can be done table(x)), but I also want to count for instance how many times that vector contains a certain number consecutively. For example in the following vector x the number "1" appears 7 times. However, I want to check for instance how many times two consecutive 1's appear in the vector, which would actually be two times the case in the below vector.
x=c(1,1,3,4,9,1,9,1,5,4,5,2,1,1,1,6)
Any ideas for this issue?
How about this?
> runs <- rle(x)
> with(runs, table(values, lengths))
lengths
values 1 2 3
1 2 1 1
2 1 0 0
3 1 0 0
4 2 0 0
5 2 0 0
6 1 0 0
9 2 0 0
Duncan