[R] Code to fetch summary info from vector

[Stephen Sefick]

I don't know if I understand what you want.  What are the periods?  I 
suspect this is a time series.  What have you tried that didn't work?
kind regards,

Stephen

On 01/15/2013 10:16 AM, Benjamin Gillespie wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> I have a vector "b":
>
> b=c(1,1,1,2,3,4,3,2,1,1,1,1,1,2,3,4,5,4,3.5,3,2,1,1,1)
>
> Imagine b is river flow throughout time.
>
> I would like some code that will generate the following information:
>
> number of individual 'periods' where b>1 (= 2 in this case)
> period 1 length = 5, max = 4
> period 2 length = 8, max = 5
>
> I can't figure anything useful out.
>
> Thanks,
> 		
> Ben Gillespie
> Research Postgraduate
>
> School of Geography
> University of Leeds
> Leeds
> LS2 9JT
>
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