[R] use of do.call and rep

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue May 25 22:44:23 CEST 2004


rep(1:2, each=5) is simpler to parse and comprehend, but I don't think 
efficiency comes into this.  Did you have some very much larger example in 
mind.

On Tue, 25 May 2004, Laura Holt wrote:

> If I use this:
> 
> rep(1:2,c(5,5))
> 
> I'll get
> 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2
> 
> Is there a way to do this more efficiently, please?
> Maybe via do.call?

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