D'Oh! yet again my first inclination is to write something complicated when a little thought shows a short, neat solution. Ah, well, I live and learn.
Cheers, Simon. On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 09:59 +0800, Jared O'Connell wrote: > Also, to handle NAs and non-integers: > > > x = c(1:3,9.4,NA) > > tmp = round(x) > > tmp[is.na(tmp)]=1 > > rep(x,tmp) > [1] 1.0 2.0 2.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 9.4 9.4 9.4 9.4 9.4 9.4 9.4 9.4 9.4 NA > > > On 6/6/07, Francisco J. Zagmutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think this will do what you want > > > > x=c(1,2,3) > > rep(x,x) > > [1] 1 2 2 3 3 3 > > > > Regards > > > > Francisco > > > > M. P. Papadatos wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > > > I am trying to expand duplicated observations. I need to replace each > > > observation in the dataset with n copies of the observation, where n is > > > equal to the required expression rounded to the nearest integer. If the > > > expression is less than 1 or equal to missing, it is interpreted as if > > > it were 1, and the observation is retained but not duplicated. > > > > > > Example > > > > > > From > > > c(1,2,3) > > > > > > To > > > c(1,2,2,3,3,3) > > > > > > Thank you in advance. > > > > > > Best wishes, > > > Martin > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > [email protected] mailing list > > > 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. > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > 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. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > 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. -- Simon Blomberg, BSc (Hons), PhD, MAppStat. Lecturer and Consultant Statistician Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences The University of Queensland St. Lucia Queensland 4072 Australia Room 320, Goddard Building (8) T: +61 7 3365 2506 email: S.Blomberg1_at_uq.edu.au The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. - John Tukey. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list 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.
