Question

Let's say I had a vector:

remove <- c(17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 30, 31, 44, 45).

How do I select / extract every second value in the vector? Like so: 17, 19, 24, 30, 44

I'm trying to use the seq function: seq(remove, 2) but it doesn't quite work.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Was it helpful?

Solution

remove[c(TRUE, FALSE)]

will do the trick.


How it works?

If logical vectors are used for indexing in R, their values are recycled if the index vector is shorter than the vector containing the values.

Here, the vector remove contains ten values. If the index vector c(TRUE, FALSE) is used, the actual command is: remove[c(TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE)]

Hence, all values with odd index numbers are selected.

OTHER TIPS

remove[seq(1,length(remove),2)]

Just another alternative:

> remove[seq_along(remove) %% 2 > 0]
[1] 17 19 24 30 44
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