Generate a repeating sequence based on vector

Question

I am trying to take an existing vector and repeat each element of it six times. I feel like this should be easy using rep() but I keep hitting the wall. Basically I would like to take this vector:

1027 1028 1030 1032 1037 

And turn it into this:

1027 1027 1027 1027 1027 1027 1028 1028 1028 1028 1028 1028 ... 

Answer 1

Use each argument:

rep(c(1027, 1028, 1030, 1032, 1037), each = 6) #  [1] 1027 1027 1027 1027 1027 1027 #  [7] 1028 1028 1028 1028 1028 1028 # [13] 1030 1030 1030 1030 1030 1030 # [19] 1032 1032 1032 1032 1032 1032 # [25] 1037 1037 1037 1037 1037 1037 

times argument:

rep(c(1027, 1028, 1030, 1032, 1037), times = 6) #  [1] 1027 1028 1030 1032 1037 #  [6] 1027 1028 1030 1032 1037 # [11] 1027 1028 1030 1032 1037 # [16] 1027 1028 1030 1032 1037 # [21] 1027 1028 1030 1032 1037 # [26] 1027 1028 1030 1032 1037