> i <- seq_len(length(x)-1) > split(x, cumsum(c(TRUE, (x[i]==0) != (x[i+1]==0)))) $`1` [1] 0.144872972504 0.850797178400
$`2` [1] 0 0 0 $`3` [1] 0.199304859380 2.063609410700 0.939393760782 0.838781367540 $`4` [1] 0 0 0 0 0 $`5` [1] 0.374688091264 0.488423999452 0.783034615362 0.626990428900 0.138188255307 2.324635712186 $`6` [1] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Ista Zahn <istaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps > > x <- split(x, x == 0) > > Best, > Ista > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Sidoti, Salvatore A. > <sidoti...@buckeyemail.osu.edu> wrote: > > Greetings! > > > > I have several large data sets of animal movements. Their pauses (zero > magnitude vectors) are of particular interest in addition to the speed > distributions that precede the periods of rest. Here is an example of the > kind of data I am interested in analyzing: > > > > x <- > abs(c(rnorm(2),replicate(3,0),rnorm(4),replicate(5,0),rnorm(6),replicate(7,0))) > > length(x) > > > > This example has 27 elements with strings of zeroes (pauses) situated > among the speed values. > > Is there a way to split the vector into zero and nonzero chunks and > store them in a form where they can be analyzed? I have tried various forms > of split() to no avail. > > > > Thank you! > > Salvatore A. Sidoti > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > 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. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.