[R] Interlacing two vectors

[Murray Jorgensen]

Thanks for the ideas about this problem. It seems mean not to say why I 
was doing this! I was writing a queue simulation one of whose outputs 
was a list of pairs (t,n) [event time, number in system after event].

I wanted a plot of the step function showing number in the system as a 
function of time. I did this by constructing two vectors: one with the 
event times repeated twice, the other with the number in the system 
before and after each event (interlacing the lagged numbers with the 
numbers).

Then a simple plot(,,type="l") gives a nice visualization of the queue.

Murray

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