R 编程:这个 for 循环的更灵活的版本

R programming: more flexible version of this for loop

下面是我的 R 代码,它采用向量 a 和 returns 向量 b。矢量 b 应该是具有特定格式的矢量 a 的唯一标识符。请注意,a 排序时所有相同的数字彼此相邻。

a <- c(1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9)
b <- NULL


for(i in 5:length(a)){
        if (a[i] == a[i - 1] & a[i] == a[i - 2] & a[i] == a[i - 3] & a[i] == a[i - 4])
            b[i] <- paste(a[i], "-", 4, sep="")
        else if (a[i] == a[i - 1] & a[i] == a[i - 2] & a[i] == a[i - 3])
            b[i] <- paste(a[i], "-", 3, sep="")
        else if (a[i] == a[i - 1] & a[i] == a[i - 2])
            b[i] <- paste(a[i], "-", 2, sep="")
        else if (a[i] == a[i - 1])
            b[i] <- paste(a[i], "-", 1, sep="")
        else 
            b[i] <- paste(a[i], "-", 0, sep="")
}

#The first 4 values in vector b have to manually entered 
#because the for loop checks up to 4 consecutive numbers in a
b[1] <- "1-0" 
b[2] <- "1-1"
b[3] <- "1-2"
b[4] <- "2-0"

b

上面的代码 returns b 根据需要,但是,如果向量 a 有超过 4 个相同的连续数字,那么 for 循环将产生包含一些相同元素的 b。如何改进此 for 循环,以便可以为任意数量的相同连续数字赋予适当的唯一标识符。

我正在考虑使用某种嵌套的 for 循环,但如何在 if 语句中完成?

这可能会取代您当前的循环。 rle() 用于为 a 的每个唯一元素构造一个序列,从零开始。然后我们可以 paste() 它们与 - 分隔符一起。

paste(a, sequence(rle(a)$lengths) - 1, sep = "-")
#  [1] "1-0" "1-1" "1-2" "2-0" "2-1" "2-2" "3-0" "4-0" "5-0" "6-0" "6-1"
# [12] "6-2" "6-3" "7-0" "8-0" "9-0" "9-1"

这与 b

的输出相同

使用 avepaste,我现在意识到这实际上只是 @RichardScriven 回答的变体:

paste(a, ave(a,a,FUN=seq_along) - 1, sep="-")
# [1] "1-0" "1-1" "1-2" "2-0" "2-1" "2-2" "3-0" "4-0" "5-0" "6-0" "6-1"
#[12] "6-2" "6-3" "7-0" "8-0" "9-0" "9-1"
# If you are sure the different groups are really sorted, this will work:
b <- tapply(1:length(a), a, FUN = function(x) (1:length(x)) -1 )
b <- paste(a, unlist(b), sep = "-")