[R] Data manipulation question (opposite of table?)

[David Winsemius]

Michael Denslow <mwdenslow at yahoo.com> wrote in
news:316086.62237.qm at web33112.mail.mud.yahoo.com: 

> Dear R users,
> 
> I am a new user (probably obvious by my question) and
> have really learned a lot from reading this list.
> Thank you all very much. My main struggles with R are
> with data manipulation.
> 
> So here is my question...
> I have data that is organized as below, this is a
> short example.
> 
> value     count
> 11232    25
> 15885    24
> 22464    20
> etc...
> 
> the 'value' field is distances and the 'count' field
> is the number of times that each distance occurs. So I
> guess it is in the same format as the output for the
> table() function.
> 
> What I need to do is make one long vector (or list)
> that includes all the actual numbers. In other words
> 11232 listed 25 times followed by 15885 listed 24
> times etc. etc.

Try something like this?

dt<-data.frame(value=c(11123,14585),count=c(3,5))
exp.dt<-with(dt,rep(value,count))

> exp.dt
[1] 11123 11123 11123 14585 14585 14585 14585 14585

-- 
David Winsemius