Re: [R] comparing the previous and next entry of a vector

2009-01-25 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Hi Jörg, If I understood, apply(yourdataframe,2,function(x) x[diff(which(x==1 | x==3))]) should do what you want. HTH, Jorge On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Jörg Groß wrote: > is there a way to do that without generating a data.frame? > > In my real data, I have a big data.frame and I have

Re: [R] comparing the previous and next entry of a vector to a criterium

2009-01-25 Thread Kingsford Jones
How about: a <- c(1,2,3,3,2,1,6,3,2) b <- c(NA,a[-length(a)]) c <- c(a[-1],NA) a[b==1 & c==3] [1] 2 6 hth, Kingsford Jones On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Jörg Groß wrote: > Hi, > > I have a quit abstract problem, hope someone can help me here. > > I have a vector like this: > > > x <- c(1

Re: [R] comparing the previous and next entry of a vector

2009-01-25 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
The data frame is not essential. I was just trying to keep things tidy. Try this: nxt <- c(tail(x, -1), NA) prv <- c(NA, head(x, -1)) x[nxt == 3 & prv == 1] On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Jörg Groß wrote: > is there a way to do that without generating a data.frame? > > In my real data, I hav

Re: [R] comparing the previous and next entry of a vector

2009-01-25 Thread Marc Schwartz
on 01/25/2009 04:29 PM Jörg Groß wrote: > Hi, > > I have a quit abstract problem, hope someone can help me here. > > I have a vector like this: > > > x <- c(1,2,3,4,5,2,6) > x > > [1] 1 2 3 4 5 2 6 > > now I want to get the number where the previous number is 1 and the next > number is 3 > (t

Re: [R] comparing the previous and next entry of a vector

2009-01-25 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try this: > DF <- data.frame(x, nxt = c(tail(x, -1), NA), prv = c(NA, head(x, -1))) > DF x nxt prv 1 1 2 NA 2 2 3 1 3 3 4 2 4 4 5 3 5 5 2 4 6 2 6 5 7 6 NA 2 > subset(DF, nxt == 3 & prv == 1)$x [1] 2 On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Jörg Groß wrote: > Hi, > > I have a

[R] comparing the previous and next entry of a vector to a criterium

2009-01-25 Thread Jörg Groß
Hi, I have a quit abstract problem, hope someone can help me here. I have a vector like this: x <- c(1,2,3,4,5,2,6) x [1] 1 2 3 4 5 2 6 now I want to get the number where the previous number is 1 and the next number is 3 (that is the 2 at the second place) I tried something with tail(x

Re: [R] comparing the previous and next entry of a vector

2009-01-25 Thread Ted Harding
On 25-Jan-09 22:29:25, Jörg Groß wrote: > Hi, > I have a quit abstract problem, hope someone can help me here. > I have a vector like this: > > x <- c(1,2,3,4,5,2,6) > x > [1] 1 2 3 4 5 2 6 > > now I want to get the number where the previous number is 1 and the > next number is 3 > (that is the

Re: [R] comparing the previous and next entry of a vector

2009-01-25 Thread Jörg Groß
is there a way to do that without generating a data.frame? In my real data, I have a big data.frame and I have to compare over different columns... Am 25.01.2009 um 23:42 schrieb Gabor Grothendieck: Try this: DF <- data.frame(x, nxt = c(tail(x, -1), NA), prv = c(NA, head(x, -1))) DF

[R] comparing the previous and next entry of a vector

2009-01-25 Thread Jörg Groß
Hi, I have a quit abstract problem, hope someone can help me here. I have a vector like this: x <- c(1,2,3,4,5,2,6) x [1] 1 2 3 4 5 2 6 now I want to get the number where the previous number is 1 and the next number is 3 (that is the 2 at the second place) I tried something with tail(x,