创建一个向量,其连续元素重复的次数与相邻列中的相应值相同

Creating a vector, sequential elements of which are repeated that many times as the corresponding values in neighbouring columns

在下面的样本数据框中,输出向量应该是[1] 1,1,1,2,1,1,1,2,2,3,3,3,4,5,5,5,5,1,1,2,3,3,3

P   N   N+1 N+2 N+3 N+4
2   3   1   1   2   1
5   3   2   3   1   4
3   2   1   3   4   5

解释:

此处的一个选项是使用 apply MARGIN = 1 遍历行,然后根据第一个元素即 'P' 获取 seq,复制seq与使用该序列子集的 'N' 列的相应值的关系

unlist(apply(df1, 1, function(x)  {
        i1 <- seq(x[1])
        rep(i1, x[-1][i1])
       }))

-输出

#[1] 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 5 5 5 1 1 2 3 3 3

数据

df1 <- structure(list(P = c(2L, 5L, 3L), N = c(3L, 3L, 2L), `N+1` = c(1L, 
2L, 1L), `N+2` = c(1L, 3L, 3L), `N+3` = c(2L, 1L, 4L), `N+4` = c(1L, 
4L, 5L)), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -3L))