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remove multiple elements from vector

3 messages · Bastian Offermann, Baptiste Auguie, Marianne Promberger

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Hello all,

one brief question

I would like to remove double/triple elements from a vector, e.g.

0 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 4 5 6 6

but keep one of these multiple ones. Should look like this finally:

0 1 2 4 5 6

My function does not work somehow

for(i in 2 : length(x)) {
                                 if(x[i]==x[i-1]) x <- x[-(i-1)]
                             }

any suggestion? Thanks.
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Hi,

?unique should work fine for this.

I think the problem in your implementation is that you modify x in the  
loop, in particular its length may become shorter than the stopping  
condition.

HTH,

baptiste
On 27 Sep 2008, at 14:30, Bastian Offermann wrote:

            
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On Saturday, 27 September 2008, 15:30 (UTC+0200), Bastian Offermann wrote:
?unique


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