
Thanks Henrique, Marc, and Gabor!


On 6/27/08 10:17 AM, "Henrique Dallazuanna" <wwwhsd@gmail.com> wrote:

> Try this:
> 
> ave(X, rep(1:(length(X)/2), each = 2), FUN=rev)
> 
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:11 AM, David Afshartous <dafshartous@med.miami.edu>
> wrote:
>> 
>> All,
>> 
>> I have a long vector that contains an even number of entries. I'd like to
>> switch the 1st and 2nd entry, the 3rd and 4th, and so on, without writing a
>> loop.
>> 
>> This code works:
>> 
>> X = c(8, 10, 6, 3, 20, 1)
>> index = c(2,1,4,3,6,5)
>> X[index]
>> 
>> But for a long list is there a way to generate the index?  I can get the
>> parts to the index as:
>> 
>> index.odd = seq(1,length(X), by  = 2)
>> index.even = index.odd + 1
>> 
>> Is there a simple way to interweave them to produce the desired index?  Or
>> is there a better way?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> David
>> 
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