[R] seq: specify *minimum* end value, more elegant solution

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

Hi,

Maybe you can specify the length of vector:

seq(from=0, by=4, l = 4)
seq(from=0, by=4, l = 5)



On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Timothy W. Hilton <twh142 at psu.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Using seq, I would like to specify a minumum end value, rather than a maximum end value.  For example, rather than
>
>> seq(from=0, to=10, by=4)
> [1] 0 4 8
>
> I would like to obtain
> [1] 0 4 8 12
>
> I can do that with
>> by.value = 4
>> seq(from=0,by=by.value,to=ceiling(10 / by.value)*by.value)
> [1]  0  4  8 12
>
> That seems like a somewhat clunky solution, though, and requires an additional variable (by.value) that shows up three times.  Is there a more elegant solution to this?
>
> Thanks!
> Tim
>
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