Create Sequence of Repeated Values in R (Example) | Replicate N Times

In this R tutorial you’ll learn how to replicate a vector sequence many times.

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Let’s dive right into the example…

Creating Example Data

Consider the following example data:

x <- 1:5                # Create example data
x                       # Print example data
# 1 2 3 4 5

Have a look at the previously shown output of the RStudio console. It shows that our example data is a vector object containing numeric values with a range from 1 to 5.

Example: Replicating Values Multiple Times Using rep Function & each Argument

The code below illustrates how to duplicate our data elements several times using the each argument within the rep function. Have a look at the following R syntax:

rep(x, each = 5)        # Replicate data 5 times
# 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5

As you can see, we have duplicated every element of our sequence five times.

Video & Further Resources

Do you want to learn more about the replication of data? Then I can recommend to watch the following video of my YouTube channel. I’m illustrating the R programming codes of this tutorial in the video:

Furthermore, you may want to have a look at the other tutorials of this website:

• Repeat Rows of Data Frame N Times
• Unique Rows of Data Frame Based On Selected Columns
• Remove Duplicated Rows from Data Frame
• rep Function in R
• The R Programming Language

In summary: On this page you learned how to repeat a sequence multiple times in the R programming language. If you have further questions, please let me know in the comments below.