Take a look at the run-length encoding function rle. I believe rle(k)$lengths gives you exactly what you want.
-s On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:19 AM, axionator <axiona...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I've a vector with entries, which are all of the same type, e.g. string: > k <- c("bb", "bb", "bb", "aa", "cc", "cc") > and want to create a second vector containing the number of each entry > in k in the same order as in k, i.e. > c(3, 1, 2) > > or: > k <- c(5,5,5,5,2,2,4) > => c(4,2,1) > > thanks > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.