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sequence that counts up and back down

2 messages · Monte Milanuk, Dimitris Rizopoulos

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I hit a minor sticking point working one of the problems in 'Using R' 
(Verzani).  I'm having difficulty with generating a sequence that goes 
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.  I can make one that counts up, I can make 
one that counts down, etc. but one that counts up then down like this 
(short of just using c() ) is stumping me.

Any help (on or off list) would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Monte
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one way is the following:

5 - abs(-4:4)


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris
Monte Milanuk wrote: