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Create a sequence of evenly-spaced values

Source: R/evenly.R
evenly.Rd

For a continuous vector x, evenly and seq_min_max() create a sequence of n evenly-spaced values over the range lower – upper. By default, lower is defined as min(x) and upper as max(x), excluding NAs. For a factor x, the function returns levels(x).

Usage

evenly(x, n = 100, by = NULL, lower = NULL, upper = NULL)

seq_min_max(x, n, by = NULL, lower = NULL, upper = NULL)

Arguments

x

numeric; vector over which evenly-spaced values are returned

n

numeric; the number of evenly-spaced values to return. A default of 100 is used for convenience as that what is typically used when evaluating a smooth.

by

numeric; the increment of the sequence. If specified, argument n is ignored and the sequence returned will be from min(x) to max(x) in increments of by.

lower

numeric; the lower bound of the interval.

upper

numeric; the upper bound of the interval.

Value

A numeric vector of length n.

See also

See base::seq() for details of the behaviour of evenly() when using by.

Examples

x <- rnorm(10)
n <- 10L

# 10 values evenly over the range of `x`
evenly(x, n = n)
#>  [1] -0.83562861 -0.56552757 -0.29542652 -0.02532547  0.24477557  0.51487662
#>  [7]  0.78497766  1.05507871  1.32517976  1.59528080

# evenly spaced values, incrementing by 0.2
evenly(x, by = 0.2)
#>  [1] -0.83562861 -0.63562861 -0.43562861 -0.23562861 -0.03562861  0.16437139
#>  [7]  0.36437139  0.56437139  0.76437139  0.96437139  1.16437139  1.36437139
#> [13]  1.56437139

# evenly spaced values, incrementing by 0.2, starting at -2
evenly(x, by = 0.2, lower = -2)
#>  [1] -2.0 -1.8 -1.6 -1.4 -1.2 -1.0 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2  0.0  0.2  0.4  0.6  0.8
#> [16]  1.0  1.2  1.4