R: Run Length Encoding

rle {base}

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Run Length Encoding

Compute the lengths and values of runs of equal values in a vector.

rle(x)

`x`	a (numerical, logical or character) vector.

A list with components

`lengths`	a vector containing the length of each run.
`values`	a vector of the same length as `lengths` with the corresponding values.

x <- rev(rep(6:10, 1:5))
rle(x)
## $lengths
## [1] 5 4 3 2 1
## $values
## [1] 10  9  8  7  6
z <- c(T,T,F,F,T,F,T,T,T)
rle(z)
rle(as.character(z))