Re: [R] Count continuous dates

:15 PM Subject: Re: [R] Count continuous dates Hi Tim, Thanks for providing nice sample data!  It made this super easy :) ## use diff() to find the differences ## use rle() to find the run lengths ## use max to find the highest one max(rle(as.vector(diff(x)))$lengths) Cheers, Josh On Wed, Nov

Re: [R] Count continuous dates

Hi Tim, Thanks for providing nice sample data! It made this super easy :) ## use diff() to find the differences ## use rle() to find the run lengths ## use max to find the highest one max(rle(as.vector(diff(x)))$lengths) Cheers, Josh On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Tim Clark wrote: > Dear

[R] Count continuous dates

Dear List, I have a series of dates and I am needing to know the greatest length of continuous dates - i.e. the number of dates before a break in the series.  For example, below there are three continuous series of dates with lengths 4, 6, and 8.  How can I count the number of continuous dates