[R] Finding where a string drops below a certain value

2013-03-09 Thread Williams,Caroline
Dear R-helpers, I am stuck on a problem, and hope someone can help. I am trying to find the time point in a time series where the values drop below a baseline threshold, defined by the mean +/- standard deviation calculated on the last 6 time points of the series. Here is a simplified example:

Re: [R] Finding where a string drops below a certain value

2013-03-09 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, The following functions will return an index to the required values, not the values themselves. firstzero - function(x) which(x == 0)[1] lastone - function(x){ z - firstzero(x) if(z == 1) NULL else z - 1 } Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Em 09-03-2013 12:53,