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R: Create indices for elements in a vector or list
indexifyR Documentation

Create indices for elements in a vector or list

Description

Create indexed components for the elements of a list.

Usage

  indexify(x, out)

Arguments

x

a numeric vector or list of vectors

out

string indicating the output format ("vector" or "list")

Value

A vector (or list) of indexed numbers

Author(s)

Gaston Sanchez

See Also

listify

Examples

# let's say you have a numeric vector like this
num_vec = c(2, 3, 1, 4)

# get indices in vector format
indexify(num_vec)

# let's say you have a list like this
str_list = list(c("a","b","c"), c("d", "e"), c("f","g","h"))

# get indices in vector format
indexify(str_list)

# get indices in list format
indexify(str_list, "list")

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