I believe you're looking for the rle() function. Cheers, Michael
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Mark Del Cerro <mark.delce...@powerint.com> wrote: > Does anybody know a way to determine the longest run of a number in a > vector of numbers? > For example if I have the following numbers: 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 > 1; how can I determine that the longest run of 1's = 4 and longest run > of 0's = 3? > > Thanks, > Mark > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.