Stefano,
my contribution is similar to Bill Dunlap's: x <- c(1,0,0,0,2,2,3,4,0,1,1,0,5,5,5,0,1) (cumsum(rle(x)$lengths)-(rle(x)$length-1))[which(diff(diff(rle(x)$values)>=0)<0)+1] cumsum(rle(x)$lengths)[which(diff(diff(rle(x)$value)>0)>0)+1] kind of a cute little problem, actually. cheers, Greg ______________________________________________ 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.