Merges intervals by returning an index vector specifying the (first)
interval that each value maps to, if any.
Usage
## S3 method for class 'numeric':
mergeIntervals(intervals, ...)
Arguments
intervals
The N intervals to be merged.
If an Nx2 numericmatrix, the first column should be the lower
bounds and the second column the upper boun
...
Not used.
Value
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Details
The upper and lower bounds are considered to be inclusive, that is,
all intervals are interpreted to be of form [a,b].
There is currently no way to specify intervals with open bounds,
e.g. (a,b].
Furthermore, the bounds are currently treated as real values.
For instance, merging [0,1] and [2,3] will return the same intervals.
Note, if integer intervals were treated specially, we would merge
these intervals to integer interval [0,3] == {0,1,2,3}.
