[R] serial subtraction within a vector

[arun]

Hi,

#Just to add:
 v<-c(3,5,8,4,9)
 diff(v)
#[1]  2  3 -4  5
#if it is a dataframe,
v1<-as.data.frame(v)
 lapply(v1,diff)
apply(v1,2,diff)

A.K.




----- Original Message -----
From: Jorge I Velez <jorgeivanvelez at gmail.com>
To: Hermann Norpois <hnorpois at googlemail.com>
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: [R] serial subtraction within a vector

?diff

HTH,
Jorge.-


On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Hermann Norpois <hnorpois at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a vector (numeric) v-> c(a,b,c,d,e) and I want to create the vector
> n->c(b-a,c-b,d-c,e-d). How can I do that?
>
>
> Thank you
> Hermann
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