[R] Simple - Finding vector in a vector

[Mike Spam]

Great, works perfekt now!
Thanks for your fast help!

Nico


2012/10/8 David L Carlson <dcarlson at tamu.edu>:
> Building on Jessica and Steve's use of embed:
>
>> X <- c(NA, 1, NA, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, NA, 1)
>> Z <- rowSums(embed(X, 3))
>> Z[is.na(Z)] <- 1
>> Z
> [1] 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 1 1
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> David L Carlson
> Associate Professor of Anthropology
> Texas A&M University
> College Station, TX 77843-4352
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
>> project.org] On Behalf Of Jessica Streicher
>> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 9:19 AM
>> To: Mike Spam
>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] Simple - Finding vector in a vector
>>
>> > x<-c(NA , 1 ,NA,  1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1  ,1 ,NA , 1)
>> > embed(x,3)
>>       [,1] [,2] [,3]
>>  [1,]   NA    1   NA
>>  [2,]    1   NA    1
>>  [3,]    1    1   NA
>>  [4,]    1    1    1
>>  [5,]    1    1    1
>>  [6,]    1    1    1
>>  [7,]    1    1    1
>>  [8,]   NA    1    1
>>  [9,]    1   NA    1
>>
>> > which(rowSums(embed(x,3))==3)
>> [1] 4 5 6 7
>>
>> gives you the first of the 3
>>
>> On 08.10.2012, at 15:38, Mike Spam wrote:
>>
>> > Sorry, i just realized, that it output the sum of all vectors. I can
>> > work with this function but it would be much faster and easier if it
>> > would be possible to get the positions of evry match.
>> >
>> > example:
>> >
>> > NA  1 NA  1  1  1  1  1  1 NA  1
>> >
>> > rle returns
>> > lengths: int [1:6] 1 1 1 6 1 1
>> >
>> > what i need would be something like,
>> > 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 1 1
>> >
>> > but anyway i can work with rle, if there is no suitable function.
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> > Nico
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 2012/10/8 Mike Spam <ichmagspam at googlemail.com>:
>> >> Hey Rui,
>> >>
>> >> Perfect! Thanks!! :)
>> >>
>> >> Nico
>> >>
>> >> 2012/10/8 Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas at sapo.pt>:
>> >>> Hello,
>> >>>
>> >>> See ?rle
>> >>>
>> >>> Hope this helps,
>> >>>
>> >>> Rui Barradas
>> >>> Em 08-10-2012 13:55, Mike Spam escreveu:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Hi,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> just a simple question.
>> >>>> Assumed i have a vector,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> FALSE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE  TRUE FALSE  TRUE FALSE
>> >>>> or
>> >>>> NA  1  1  1 NA  1 NA  1 NA
>> >>>>
>> >>>> what i need is the position where an element is the same - three
>> (or
>> >>>> in general multiple) times in a row.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> in this case: i want to get the position where it is TRUE TRUE
>> TRUE or 1 1
>> >>>> 1
>> >>>> it doesn't matter if it is the first, middle or last element. So
>> the
>> >>>> output could be 2 or 3 or 4
>> >>>>
>> >>>> My idea would be to lag the vector and calc differences... but i
>> would
>> >>>> prefer any build in (or time saving) function. :)
>> >>>>
>> >>>> thanks,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Nico
>> >>>>
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