R help - Oct 2007 - Manual recycling of vectors?

Sorry if this is already answered somewhere, but I could not find it.  
I have two vectors, x,y, of different length, and I want to recycle  
the smaller one (whichever one it is) until they have the same  
length. I was wondering if there is a anything better than something  
like:

x<-1:3
y<-1:10
x<-rep(x,length=max(x,y))
y<-rep(y,length=max(x,y))

or some variant of that using if to avoid the two calls to rep.

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College

Hi

r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 19.10.2007 15:58:43:
> Sorry if this is already answered somewhere, but I could not find it. 
> I have two vectors, x,y, of different length, and I want to recycle 
> the smaller one (whichever one it is) until they have the same 
> length. I was wondering if there is a anything better than something 
> like:
> 
> x<-1:3
> y<-1:10
> x<-rep(x,length=max(x,y))
> y<-rep(y,length=max(x,y))
E.g.

mat<-cbind(x,y)

gives you desired recycling in matrix form or

x*(y>0)

if you know that y is longer than x and all number are bigger than 0.

Regards
Petr
> 
> or some variant of that using if to avoid the two calls to rep.
> 
> Haris Skiadas
> Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
> Hanover College
> 
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