R/streakLength.R

In elo2zero/oddsandsods: Miscellanous functions

#' @export
streakLength <- function(x)  {
  rl <- rle(x)
  len <- rl$lengths
  v <- rl$values
  cumLen <- cumsum(len)
  z <- x
  # replace the 0 at the end of each zero-block in z by the
  # negative of the length of the preceding 1-block....
  iDrops <- c(0, diff(v)) < 0
  z[ cumLen[ iDrops ] ] <- -len[ c(iDrops[-1],FALSE) ]
  # ... to ensure that the cumsum below does the right thing.
  # We zap the cumsum with x so only the cumsums for the 1-blocks survive:
  x*cumsum(z)
}