[R] Identifying one or more TRUE in the middle of an array

[ONKELINX, Thierry]

Here is my solution.

falses <- which(!x)
first.false <- head(falses, 1)
last.false <- tail(falses, 1)
which(x[first.false:last.false]) + first.false - 1


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Van: r-help-bounces op r-project.org [r-help-bounces op r-project.org] namens Fisher Dennis [fisher op plessthan.com]
Verzonden: vrijdag 6 juni 2014 23:45
Aan: r-help op stat.math.ethz.ch
Onderwerp: [R] Identifying one or more TRUE in the middle of an array

R 3.1.0
OS X

Colleagues

I have an array (I am using T/F rather than TRUE/FALSE for convenience) that could have patterns like:
        c(T, T, T, F, F, F, T, F, T, T, T)              ## T at either end, a single T in the middle
        c(F, F, F, F, F, T, F, F, T, T, T)              ## T at the tail end, a single T in the middle
        c(T, T, T, F, F, T, T, F, F, F, F)              ## T at the front end, two T in the middle
        c(T, T, T, F, F, T, T, F, T, F, F)              ## T at the front end, three T in the middle (not contiguous)
        c(F, F, F, F, F, T, F, F, F, F, F)              ## no T at either end, a single T in the middle
There might (or might not) be one or more T at the beginning (or the end).
There might or might not be one or more T in the middle (not in a series that continues to either end) and the position of these T values varies.

I am trying to identify the indices (if any) of these T values in the middle
A brute force approach would be to strip off any contiguous T values from each end, then look for any remaining T values.  Can anyone propose a more clever approach?

Dennis

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