Dear friends, I would like to get all possible arrangements of n objects listed 1:n on a circle.
Now this is easy to do in R. Keep the last spot fixed at n and fill in the rest using permuations(n-1, n-1) from the gtools package. However, what if clockwise or counterclockwise arrangements are the same? I know that half of the above (n - 1)! arrangements are redundant. Is there an easy way to list these (n-1)!/2 arrangements? I thought of only listing the first half from a call to permuations(n - 1, n - 1), but while this holds for n = 4, it does not for n = 5. So, I am wondering if there is another function or tweak which would easily do this. Many thanks in advance for any help. and best wishes, Ranjan ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
