[R] Efficient way to find consecutive integers in vector?

Gabor Csardi csardi at rmki.kfki.hu
Thu Dec 20 23:11:18 CET 2007


Joh,

x <- c(1,2,3,4,7,8,9,10,12,13)
which(diff(x) != 1)

gives the indices of the 'jumps'.

Gabor

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:43:05PM +0100, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anybody have a magic trick handy to isolate directly consecutive
> integers from something like this:
> c(1,2,3,4,7,8,9,10,12,13)
> 
> The result should be, that groups 1-4, 7-10 and 12-13 are consecutive
> integers ...
> 
> Thanks for any hints, Joh
> 
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