[R-SIG-Finance] [R] counting a sequence of charactors or numbers

[roger koenker]

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url:    www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger                Roger Koenker
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On Sep 30, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Joe Byers wrote:

> I have the following sequence of characters.  These could be  
> integers as
> well.  For this problem, only two values are valid.
>
> S S S S S S W W W W W W W W S S S S S S S S W W W W W W W W S S S S  
> S S
> S S S S S S S W W W W W W W W W
>
> I need to determine the count of the classes/groups in sequence. as
> 6,8,8,8,13,9 where the sum of these equal my total observations.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you
> Joe
>
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