[R] How to remove similar successive objects from a vector?

[Atte Tenkanen]

Thanks for all respondents!

I wasn't precise enough, when I enclosed my example. In fact, I need a
version which works with all kinds of symbolic data, not only with
numbers. So these versions

rle(VECTOR)$values

and

VECTOR=c(3,2,2,3,4,4,5,5,5,3,3,3,5,1,6,6)
NEWVECTOR <- ifelse(VECTOR[-length(VECTOR)]==VECTOR[-1],NA,VECTOR)
NEWVECTOR[!is.na(NEWVECTOR)]

answered to my needs.

I made a test and the first version was 2.5x faster with my data, but
both works enough fast.

Atte

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 08:58 +0100, Patrick Burns wrote:
> I think
> 
> rle(VECTOR)$values
> 
> will get you what you want.
> 
> Patrick Burns
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> 
> Atte Tenkanen wrote:
> 
> >Is there some (much) more efficient way to do this?
> >
> >VECTOR=c(3,2,4,5,5,3,3,5,1,6,6);
> >NEWVECTOR=VECTOR[1];
> >
> >for(i in 1:(length(VECTOR)-1))
> >{
> >	if((identical(VECTOR[i], VECTOR[i+1]))==FALSE){
> >		NEWVECTOR=c(NEWVECTOR,VECTOR[i+1])}
> >}
> >
> >  
> >
> >>VECTOR
> >>    
> >>
> > [1] 3 2 4 5 5 3 3 5 1 6 6
> >  
> >
> >>NEWVECTOR
> >>    
> >>
> >[1] 3 2 4 5 3 5 1 6
> >
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