On 05/12/2012 21:08, Sarah Goslee wrote:
Hi,
duplicated() doesn't just look at consecutive values, but anywhere in
the object. Since your 12320-element vector has only 48 separate
values, and all of them occur before the last 30 elements, so
duplicated() returns TRUE.
You might be looking for something involving rle(). What are you
trying to accomplish?
And BTW, 'long vector' is a technical term in R: not 12,000, but more
than 2 billion elements. You will hear it a lot more in the run-up to
the next 'minor' release of R (currently R-devel, maybe 2.16.0-to-be,
which is the only version from which that quote comes that I am aware of).
The posting guide asked for 'at a minimum' information: if you are using
an unreleased development version of R you really must tell us (and
should not be reporting to the R-help list).
Sarah
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Stephen Politzer-Ahles
<politzerahl...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
duplicated() does not seem to work for a long vector. For example, if
you download the data from
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6-m45Jvl3ZmNmpaSlJWMXo5bmc (a vector
with about 12,000 numbers) and then run the following code which does
duplicated() over the whole vector but just shows the last 30
elements:
data.frame( tail(verylong, 30), tail(duplicated(verylong), 30) )
you'll see that at the end of the very long vector everything is
listed as a duplicate of the preceding element (even though it
shouldn't be). On the other hand, if you run the following code which
just takes out the last 30 elements of the vector and does duplicated
on them:
data.frame( tail(verylong, 30), duplicated(tail(verylong, 30)) )
you get the correct results (FALSE shows up wherever the value in the
first column changes). Does anyone know why this happens, and if
there's a fix? I notice the documentation for duplicated() says: "Long
vectors are supported for the default method of duplicated, but may
only be usable if nmax is supplied." But I've tried running this with
a high value of nmax given, and it still gives me the same problem.
So far the only way I've figured out to get this duplicated()-like
vector is to use a for loop going through one item at a time, but that
takes about a minute to run.
Best,
Steve Politzer-Ahles
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