[R] Loop elimination question

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Murray Jorgensen wrote:

> I want to make a vector built up from several parts. Each part consists of 3
> followed by a variable number of 4s. The number of 4s is given by a vector
> called dim, say
> 
> dim <- c(3,1,4,1,5)
> 
> From this I want to produce 
> 
> 3 4 4 4 3 4 3 4 4 4 4 3 4 3 4 4 4 4 4
> 
> Now the following code seems to work
> 
> type <- numeric(0)
> for (j in seq(along=dim)) {
>       type <- c(type,3,rep(4,dim[j]))}
> 
> and I won't really need it to work for very large dim vectors so you could say
> my problem is solved. I am wondering, though, if the loop can be eliminated.

Using rep:

rep(rep(c(3,4), length(dim)), as.vector(t(cbind(1, dim))))

for example.

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