[R] matching element of a vector to i-2nd element

Davide Piffer pifferdavide at gmail.com
Sun Jul 23 22:23:38 CEST 2017


Thanks a lot, Herve'. This worked!

On 23 July 2017 at 22:19, Hervé Pagès <hpages at fredhutch.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 07/23/2017 11:43 AM, Davide Piffer wrote:
>>
>> I have a df with a vector v. For each element of the vector, I want to
>> know whether the i-2nd element is the same as the ith element. For
>> example:
>> given
>> v=c(A,C,D,C) the result should be:
>> FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,TRUE.
>>
>> I attempted something using indexing in a for loop such as (bad,
>> incorrect example):
>>   for (i in v){
>>    if [i]==[i-2] print T
>> else print F
>> }
>>
>> However, this is obviously wrong.
>
>
> Why don't you provide code that is actually valid R code so we
> can run it. Then we can see if it does the right thing or not.
>
>> Can someone provide a nice way to solve this?
>
>
> Does this do what you want?
>
>   isSameAsPrevious <- function(v, k=1) c(rep(FALSE, k), head(v,n=-k) ==
> tail(v, n=-k))
>
> Then:
>
>> isSameAsPrevious(v, 2)
> [1] FALSE FALSE FALSE  TRUE
>
> H.
>
>
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