[R] Problem with subset

[Charles C. Berry]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Luca Mortarini wrote:

> Hi,
>     I am new to R and i am looking for a way to extract a subset from a
> vector.
> I have a vector of number oscillating around zero (a decreasing
> autocorrelation function) and i would like to extract only the first
> positive part of the function (from zero lag to the lag where the function
> inverts its sign for the first time).
> I have tried
>
> subset(myvector,myvector>0)
>
> but this obviously extract all the positive intervals not only the first one.
> Is there a logical statement i can use in subset? I prefer not to use an

For vector subsets you probably want "[". Because from help("[")

 	For ordinary vectors, the result is simply x[subset & !is.na(subset)].


But see

 	?rle

Something like

 	myvector[ 1 : rle( myvector >= 0 )$lengths[ 1 ] ]

should work.

HTH,

Chuck


> if statement that would probably slow down the code.
> Thanks a lot,
>                          Luca
>
>
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