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How to assign more than one value for "each" argument in "rep" function in R? A trivial example, where each value in a vector is 3-times repeated in a row:
a <- seq(2,6,2)
rep (a,each = 3)
However, if I add more than one value in "each" argument in order to change the number of repetition of each value, it doesn't work properly:
rep (a, each = c(2,4,7))
How to solve it? Thank you in advance.
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What is the rep() function? In simple terms, rep in R, or the rep() function replicates numeric values, or text, or the values of a vector for a specific number of times.
How do you Repeat a Sequence of Numbers in R? To repeat a sequence of numbers in R you can use the rep() function. For example, if you type rep(1:5, times=5) you will get a vector with the sequence 1 to 5 repeated 5 times.
There are two methods to create a vector with repeated values in R but both of them have different approaches, first one is by repeating each element of the vector and the second repeats the elements by a specified number of times. Both of these methods use rep function to create the vectors.
Depending on what you think the output should be, I'm guessing you want the times= parameter:
rep (a, times = c(2, 4, 7))
# [1] 2 2 4 4 4 4 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
See ?rep for the difference
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