[R] generate sequences for every element of a vector

R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt@gmail.com> michael.weylandt at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 16:25:25 CEST 2011


Untested, wouldn't outer(x, 0:n,"+") work as well and be a little faster?

M

On Oct 7, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Dimitris Rizopoulos <d.rizopoulos at erasmusmc.nl> wrote:

> One option is:
> 
> x <- c(3, 8, 14, 24, 34, 40)
> c(sapply(x, seq, length = 3))
> 
> 
> I hope it helps.
> 
> Best,
> Dimitris
> 
> 
> On 10/7/2011 3:40 PM, Martin Batholdy wrote:
>> Dear R-List,
>> 
>> 
>> I have the following problem:
>> 
>> I have a vector that looks like this:
>> 
>> x<- c(3, 8, 14, 24, 34, 40)
>> 
>> 
>> And I would like to make a sequence out of every element, starting at the value of this element.
>> 
>> So that I get a vector just like this:
>> 
>> x<- c(3, 4, 5,     8, 9, 10,      14, 15, 16,       24, 25, 26,       34, 35, 36,      40, 41, 42)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> How can I do this without looping over the whole vector or something like this?
>> 
>> 
>> thanks for any suggestions!
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