[R] counting strings of identical values in a matrix

[A M Lavezzi]

thank you.
I did not think about the case of overlapping of 
1's from the end of one column to the start of the next,
this would actually be a problem

In the simulations I am running each column 
corresponds to the path followed by an agent 
across states of a stochastic process,
so I would like to avoid mixing up two different 
paths (I made a mistake when I mentioned the possibility of turning my matrix
into a vector, sorry about that).

can I kindly ask again your help on this?

please excuse me.

Mario



At 17.36 15/11/2007, Marc Schwartz wrote:
>Ah...OK. I misunderstood then. I thought that you wanted the number of
>runs of 1's in each column.
>
>This is actually easier, _if_ there is not an overlap of 1's from the
>end of one column to the start of the next column:
>
>res <- rle(as.vector(prova))
>
> > res
>Run Length Encoding
>   lengths: int [1:11] 2 2 2 2 3 3 5 4 2 1 ...
>   values : int [1:11] 3 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 ...
>
> > table(res$lengths[res$values == 1])
>
>1 2 3 4
>1 2 1 1
>
>
>HTH,
>
>Marc
>
>
>On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 17:18 +0100, A M Lavezzi wrote:
> > Dear Marc
> > thank you so much!
> >
> > One thing: writing xx=[1,2,1,1] is not a typo: I
> > read it as the count of runs of different length starting from 1.
> >
> > In "prova" I have 1 run of length one, 2 runs of
> > length two, 1 run of length three and 1 run of length four.
> >
> > Can I abuse of your time  and ask how to do this?
> >
> > Thanks again
> > Mario
> >
> > At 16.48 15/11/2007, you wrote:
> >
> > >On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 15:51 +0100, A M Lavezzi wrote:
> > > > Hello
> > > >
> > > > I have this problem. I have a large matrix of this sort:
> > > >
> > > >  > prova
> > > >       [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
> > > > [1,]    3    3    3    3
> > > > [2,]    3    3    3    1
> > > > [3,]    1    3    3    3
> > > > [4,]    1    1    1    3
> > > > [5,]    3    1    1    3
> > > > [6,]    3    1    1    3
> > > > [7,]    1    3    1    3
> > > > [8,]    1    3    3    3
> > > >
> > > > What I want to do is to count the number of
> > > > sequences of ones and stack the results in a
> > > > vector, which I will subsequently use to 
> build an istogram (or a density)
> > > >
> > > > I mean: in the matrix "prova" I have two
> > > > sequences of length two in column 1, one sequence
> > > > of length three in column 2, one sequence  of
> > > > length four in column 3 and one sequence of
> > > > length one in column 4. (I know I can actually
> > > > turn the matrix into a vector by using rep(prova))
> > > >
> > > > I would like to get to a vector such as : xx = [1,2,1,1]
> > >
> > >I presume a typo above and that it should be:
> > >
> > >   xx = [2,1,1,1]
> > >
> > >?
> > >
> > >If so:
> > >
> > > > unlist(lapply(apply(prova, 2, rle),
> > >                 function(x) length(x$lengths[x$values == 1])))
> > >[1] 2 1 1 1
> > >
> > >
> > >See ?rle to get the basics of identifying runs of values.
> > >
> > >HTH,
> > >
> > >Marc Schwartz
> >
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Andrea Mario Lavezzi
Dipartimento di Studi su Politica Diritto e Società
Piazza Bologni 8
90134 Palermo
tel. ++39 091 6625600
fax ++39 091 6112023
skype: lavezzimario
email: lavezzi at unipa.it
web: http://www.unipa.it/~lavezzi
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