[R] Partition a vector into select groups with fixed length

[Bert Gunter]

Perhaps simpler:
Hint:  (seq_along(LETTERS) -1) %/% 5
## modular arithmetic can be useful for this sort of thing


Bert Gunter

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On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 11:47 AM Gerrit Eichner <
gerrit.eichner using math.uni-giessen.de> wrote:

> Hi, Christofer,
>
> try something along
>
> len <- 5
> split(Vec, rep(seq(ceiling(length(Vec)/len)), each = len))
>
>   Hth  --  Gerrit
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> Am 18.08.2019 um 20:01 schrieb Christofer Bogaso:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Let say I have a vector as below
> >
> > Vec = LETTERS
> >
> > Now I want to break this vector into groups of the same length of 5.
> >
> > So,
> > 1st group consists - "A" "B" "C" "D" "E"
> > 2nd group - "F" "G" "H" "I" "J"
> >
> > and so on..
> > last group will consist only the leftover elements
> >
> > I have a very large initial vector, so looking for some efficient way
> > to achieve the same. Any pointer will be highly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
> >
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