Try this:

s1 <- 1:7
s2 <- 1:10

lapply(seq(length(s1)), function(i)cbind(head(s1, i), tail(s2, i)))



On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:44 PM, emj83 <stp08emj@shef.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> I am having trouble writing a code for matching two pairs of sequences with
> differing lengths:
>
> for example sequence1= 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 sequence2=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
>
> I want to create several new pairs of sequences in several dataframes such
> that:
> 1st dataframe is 1,10 (start of sequence1, end of sequence 2)
> 2nd dataframe is 1, 9
>                         2, 10
>
> 3rd dataframe is 1, 8
>                        2, 9
>                        3, 10
>
> etc etc.
>
> I realise this may involve a complicated loop and am really struggling to
> make a start on it.
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