Hi

Removal outliers is quite tricky business and especially automatic removal of 
outliers. I have in some cases different approach.

If I know that some series is stationary and there are some dropouts in 
measurement (somebody disconnected it, process stopped for whatever reasons) I 
take large enough sequence, compute median (which shall be close to most of the 
points, set some arbitrary value for threshold and remove measurements which 
are behind this threshold. I then check my choice by visual inspection of plot.

So in your case

myts <- data.frame(x=c(1,2,50,40,30,40,100,1,50,1,2,3,3,5,4),y=NA)
selec <- abs(myts$x-median(myts$x))>15
myts$y[selec] <- myts$x[selec]
myts$x[selec] <- NA
> myts
    x   y
1   1  NA
2   2  NA
3  NA  50
4  NA  40
5  NA  30
6  NA  40
7  NA 100
8   1  NA
9  NA  50
10  1  NA
11  2  NA
12  3  NA
13  3  NA
14  5  NA
15  4  NA

So you either reconsider your outlier definition or you has to stick with 
Jeff's solution.

Cheers
Petr

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> Hi Petr,
>
> Thanks for your reply,
>
> Actually it's not what I'm looking for. The aim is not simply to remove
> each value > 15.
>
> In my loop, I consider the first numeric value of my column as
> "correct".
> Then, I want to test the second value. If the absolute difference with
> the previous correct one is <15, it's a new correct one, but if it's
> >15, then it's a wrong one.
> If it's a wrong one, it has to test the third one to check if it's
> still >15 from the last correct value (first one).
> The value becomes correct again when the difference with the last
> correct one goes under 15 (and so, this value is the new "correct" one,
> and so one for the rest of the column).
>
> My loop is already doing the trick, but I just want to speed it up (or
> maybe another faster way to do the job).
> Hope it's more understandable right now!
>
>
>
>
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