[R] I need a very specific unique like function and I don't know even how to properly call this

[Ista Zahn]

Here is a method for piecing it together using diff and indexing:

dat <- structure(c(3L, 6L, 7L, 3L, 7L, 5L, 8L, 2L, 7L, 0L, 7L, 5L, 5L,
 5L, 5L, 5L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 6L), .Dim = c(10L, 2L), .Dimnames = list(
     NULL, c("V1", "V2")))
 diffs <- abs(diff(dat[,2], 1)) # get the difference between each
value and the previous value
 new.dat <- cbind(dat, c(NA, diffs), c(diffs, NA)) # combine the diffs
with the original matrix, shifted down (is the next valued the same as
the value) and down (is the previous value the same)
 new.dat <- cbind(new.dat, rowSums(new.dat[,3:4], na.rm=TRUE)) # sum
the shifted diffs so that the value is 0 if above and below are the
same, and greater than zero if the above and below values are not the
same
 final.dat <- new.dat[new.dat[,5] !=0 ,1:2] # get rid of rows for
which the sum of the shifted diffs is not equal to zero.

HTH,
Ista
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 8:53 PM, madr <madrazel at interia.pl> wrote:
>
> consider this matrix:
>
>      [,1] [,2]
>  [1,]    3   7
>  [2,]    6   5
>  [3,]    7   5
>  [4,]    3   5
>  [5,]    7   5
>  [6,]    5   5
>  [7,]    8   4
>  [8,]    2   4
>  [9,]    7   4
> [10,]    0   6
>
> I need to delete all rows where column 2 above and below has the same value,
> so the effect would be:
>
>      [,1] [,2]
>  [1,]    3   7
>  [2,]    6   5
>  [6,]    5   5
>  [7,]    8   4
>  [9,]    7   4
> [10,]    0   6
>
> is there a built in function for that kind of operation or I must write one
> from scratch ?
> Is there a name for that kind of operation ?
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Ista Zahn
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University of Rochester
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