How do you create vectors with specific intervals in R?

Question

I have a question about creating vectors. If I do a <- 1:10, \"a\" has the values 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.

My question is how do you create a vector wit

Answer 1

Usually, we want to divide our vector into a number of intervals. In this case, you can use a function where (a) is a vector and (b) is the number of intervals. (Let's suppose you want 4 intervals)

a <- 1:10
b <- 4

FunctionIntervalM <- function(a,b) {
  seq(from=min(a), to = max(a), by = (max(a)-min(a))/b)
}

FunctionIntervalM(a,b)
# 1.00  3.25  5.50  7.75 10.00

Therefore you have 4 intervals:

1.00 - 3.25 
3.25 - 5.50
5.50 - 7.75
7.75 - 10.00

You can also use a cut function

  cut(a, 4)

# (0.991,3.25] (0.991,3.25] (0.991,3.25] (3.25,5.5]   (3.25,5.5]   (5.5,7.75]  
# (5.5,7.75]   (7.75,10]    (7.75,10]    (7.75,10]   
#Levels: (0.991,3.25] (3.25,5.5] (5.5,7.75] (7.75,10]