[R] Choose every second value

[Patrick Burns]

Instead of making two vectors, you
might want to just have one matrix
with two rows:

amat <- matrix(a, nrow=2)

Then you can do:

amat[1,]
amat[2,]



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Walther, Alexander wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> is there a command that selects every second value from a given vector?
> For instance,
> 
> a <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6)
> 
> should yield
> 
> 1,3,5
> 
> and
> 
> 2,4,6
> 
> which i intend to place into two seperate vectors.
> 
> 
> best
> 
> Alex
> 
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