Re: detecting repeated values in a vector

[Patrick Burns <pburns@pburns.seanet.com>]

Sounds like a job for 'rle'.

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Caitlin Burgess wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to detect repeated values of length k in a vector of
> measurements (a stuck sensor). I was thinking of something like
>
>
> for (val in 1:(length(vector)-k+1)) {
>
>    if ( vector[val:(val+k)] == rep(vector[val],k) ) {#detection positive}
>
> }
>
> It's a long vector and there are many of them though... Is there a better
> way?
>
> Thanks for help,
>
> Caitlin
>
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