R help - Jun 2010 - Finding sets

Hi all,

I'd like to find how many sets of 1s there are in the following example;

x <- rep(c(1,2,1,3,5), each=5)

I know that there are two sets of 1s, visually. Any function in R that 
allows me to automate the process?

Thanks.


Muhammad

Hi:

Here's one approach:
> x <- rep(c(1,2,1,3,5), each=5)
> rle(x)
Run Length Encoding
  lengths: int [1:5] 5 5 5 5 5
  values : num [1:5] 1 2 1 3 5
> table(rle(x)$values)
1 2 3 5
2 1 1 1
> unname(table(rle(x)$values))[1]
[1] 2

HTH,
Dennis

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Muhammad Rahiz <
muhammad.rahiz@ouce.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to find how many sets of 1s there are in the following
example;
>
> x <- rep(c(1,2,1,3,5), each=5)
>
> I know that there are two sets of 1s, visually. Any function in R that
> allows me to automate the process?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Muhammad
>
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