R.utils (version 2.5.0)

seqToHumanReadable: Gets a short human readable string representation of an vector of indices

Description

Gets a short human readable string representation of an vector of indices.

Usage

"seqToHumanReadable"(idx, tau=2L, delimiter="-", collapse=", ", ...)

Arguments

idx

A vector of integer indices.

tau

A non-negative integer specifying the minimum span of of a contiguous sequences for it to be collapsed to -.

delimiter

A character string delimiter.

collapse

A character string used to collapse subsequences.

...

Not used.

See Also

Internally, seqToIntervals() is used.

Examples

  print(seqToHumanReadable(1:2))                 # "1, 2"
  print(seqToHumanReadable(1:2, tau=1))          # "1-2"
  print(seqToHumanReadable(1:10))                # "1-10"
  print(seqToHumanReadable(c(1:10, 15:18, 20)))  # "1-10, 15-18, 20"