How about:
> dim
[1] 3 1 4 1 5> N <- length(dim)
> one <- rep(c(3,4),N)
> two <- c(rep(1,N),dim)
> three <- rep(1:N,rep(2,N))+N*rep(0:1,N)
> rep(one,two[three])
[1] 3 4 4 4 3 4 3 4 4 4 4 3 4 3 4 4 4 4 4
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murray Jorgensen [mailto:maj at waikato.ac.nz]
> Sent: 1. november 2000 09:55
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] Loop elimination question
>
>
> I want to make a vector built up from several parts. Each
> part consists of 3
> followed by a variable number of 4s. The number of 4s is
> given by a vector
> called dim, say
>
> dim <- c(3,1,4,1,5)
>
> From this I want to produce
>
> 3 4 4 4 3 4 3 4 4 4 4 3 4 3 4 4 4 4 4
>
> Now the following code seems to work
>
> type <- numeric(0)
> for (j in seq(along=dim)) {
> type <- c(type,3,rep(4,dim[j]))}
>
> and I won't really need it to work for very large dim vectors
> so you could say
> my problem is solved. I am wondering, though, if the loop can
> be eliminated.
>
>
>
> Murray Jorgensen, Department of Statistics, U of Waikato,
> Hamilton, NZ
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