Given the following R statements v <- c('a', 'a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'c', 'c') ave(v, list(v), FUN=seq_along) [1] "1" "2" "3" "1" "2" "3" "1" "2" "3" "4"
I was expecting to get a numeric vector back. I apparently have missed something in the documentation. If vector v is character, then the numeric sequence is converted to character before returning. I can work around by doing something like ave(seq_along(v), list(v), FUN=seq_along) [1] 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 Is the work around the best way to go, or have I missed an option in the documentation? Thanks, Dan Daniel Nordlund, PhD Research and Data Analysis Division Services & Enterprise Support Administration Washington State Department of Social and Health Services ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.