[R] creating a closed loop for a list

[jim holtman]

Is this what you want?  You will have to adjust the indices appropriately:

> x<-c(2,0,0,2,2,2)
> i <- seq_along(x)
> x[i]
[1] 2 0 0 2 2 2
> # to "loop around",  change how you index
> x[(i - 1) %% length(x) + 1]
[1] 2 0 0 2 2 2
> i <- i + 1
> x[(i - 1) %% length(x) + 1]
[1] 0 0 2 2 2 2
> i <- i + 1
> x[(i - 1) %% length(x) + 1]
[1] 0 2 2 2 2 0
> i <- i + 1
> x[(i - 1) %% length(x) + 1]
[1] 2 2 2 2 0 0
>
>
>

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 6:56 AM, djrwicks <djrwicks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Given the following, how to I get x[i+1] to not return an NA result when it
> gets to the end of list x by looping back to the start of the list
> i.e should return: 0 0 2 2 2 2?
>
>> x<-c(2,0,0,2,2,2)
>> i<-1:length(x)
>> x[i]
> [1] 2 0 0 2 2 2
>> x[i+1]
> [1]  0  0  2  2  2 NA
>
> can i be described using a loop that says go back to the beginning of list
> x?
>
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Jim Holtman
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