R/get.line.breaks.R

In BoutrosLab.plotting.general: Functions to Create Publication-Quality Plots

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### FUNCTION TO GET LINE BREAKS ###################################################################
get.line.breaks <- function(x) {

	v <- rep(NA, length(x));

	for (i in 2:length(v)) {
		v[i] <- ifelse(x[i] != x[i - 1], TRUE, FALSE);
		}

	# find breaks and add padding
	breaks <- which(v) - 0.5;

	return(breaks);
	}