weird question

["Leeds, Mark" <mleeds@mlp.com>]

here is a weird Splus question for anyone who is interested :

 

i am trying to avoid looping and

i have 2 vectors say

 

startindex which is (1,9)

endindex which is (5,17)

 

but then i have another vector

price which is a vector of length  say 50 with elements in it.

 

what i want to do is build the vectors

price[1:5] and price[9:17]

but without looping ?

 

in other words, i want to do something like

temp_price[seq(startindex:endindex)]

 

and then be able to reference temp in such a way that

i know what i am referencing.

seq doesn' t take vectors though.

rep does but i don't

see how i could use rep here to do what i want to do.

 

obviously, there could be more than 2 elements in startindex and endindex so

this is a specific simple case.

 

if this isn' clear, then don't worry about it. i'm not sure if i am being so clear.

 

                                                                    thanks.