Exactly what I am looking for. Thanks a lot!
Mike On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 13-01-17 4:50 PM, C W wrote: > >> Dear list, >> How do you delete repeated samples? In MCMC, when your candidate value >> has >> been reject, so you remain on the same point, so you keep that value. >> >> Say I have this toy example, >> >> c(1,6,6,6,3,5,4,4,2,3,5) >>> >> >> The 6 and 4 are repeated, I only want the index of the non-repeated >> values. >> >> I thought of using which() and unique(), but that does not give you the >> index of the unique values. >> > > You could use x[!duplicated(x)] or rle(x)$values, depending on your > definition of "repeated". I hope you're aware that you can't use either > for things like quantiles and moments of the limiting distribution. > > > x <- c(1,6,6,6,3,5,4,4,2,3,5) > > x[!duplicated(x)] > [1] 1 6 3 5 4 2 > > rle(x)$values > [1] 1 6 3 5 4 2 3 5 > > Duncan Murdoch > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.