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))
And to go even a bit further, the table function returns a matrix  
which can be addressed to yield the specific answer requested:

  with(runs, table(values, lengths))["1",2]
[1] 1  # m=number of exactly runs if length 2
 > sum( tbl["1", 2:ncol(tbl)] )
[1] 2  # number of runs of length two or more.
David

>

>     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
>
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT

question R regarding consecutive numbers

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