[R] Counting indexes

Erik Iverson eriki at ccbr.umn.edu
Wed May 26 06:40:08 CEST 2010


Robin Jeffries wrote:
> Hallo!
> 
> I have a vector of ID's like so,
> id <- c(1,2,2,3,3,3,4,5,5)
> 
> I would like to create a [start,stop] pair of vectors that index the first
> and last observation per ID.
> 
> For the ID list above, it would look like
> 1 1
> 2 3
> 4 6
> 7 7
> 8 9
> 

which(!duplicated(id))
[1] 1 2 4 7 8

cumsum(rle(id)$lengths)
[1] 1 3 6 7 9



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