[R] computing sum of indicator variables

[Berton Gunter]

Think whole objects!

Simpler and quicker would be:

y<-rep(0,max(i))
y[i]<-1

would it not?

Cheers,
Bert

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Bert Gunter

Non-Clinical Biostatistics
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Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote:

> Hi Stefan,
>
> you could try something like,
>
> x <- c(2,4,7)
> as.numeric(!is.na(match(seq(1, max(x)), x)))
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Best,
> Dimitris
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stefan Böhringer" <commercial at s-boehringer.de>
> To: "R Help" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 10:45 AM
> Subject: [R] computing sum of indicator variables
>
> > My problem is as follows:
> > i is a list of integers of variable length. Now I want to compute a
> new
> > vector/array that contains 1's at the positions indicated in i. For
> > example:
> > c(2, 4) -> c(0, 1, 0, 1)
> >
> > Using something like
> > i = i - c(0, i[2:length(i) - 1]);
> > sapply(i, function(x) c(rep(0, x - 1), 1)));
> >
> > faces me with the problem of concatenating the result, which I could
> > somehow not find a solution for.
> >
> > Thank you very much in advance.
> >
> > Stefan
> >