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Generating two sequences with one function and one parameter

I want to generate these two sequences:

A = c(0.25,0.50,0.75,1,0.25,0.50,0.75,0.25,0.50,0.25)
B = c(0.33,0.66,1,0.33,0.66,0.33)

with one function. I already have this:

X = 5
X = 4
rep(seq(1/(X-1),1,1/(X-1)), X-1)

but, I still need to remove some values, I did it like this, but that is not really the right way:

rep(seq(1/(X-1),1,1/(X-1)), X-1)[-c(8,11,12,14,15,16)]
rep(seq(1/(X-1),1,1/(X-1)), X-1)[-c(6,8,9)]

Is there a way to write this in a single function?

Solution

  • One way to do this is by sequence(x:1)/x, with x taking the required value.

    > f = function(x) sequence(x:1)/x
> f(4)
# [1] 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 0.25 0.50 0.75 0.25 0.50 0.25
> f(3)
# [1] 0.3333333 0.6666667 1.0000000 0.3333333 0.6666667 0.3333333

    (This is assuming that sequence counts as one function i.e. and we don't include : and / etc.)