Reduce vector (A,B,C,D,...) into (A-B,C-D,...)

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I want to reduce a vector with length n (where n is even) into length n/2 using R

If the vector was (10,50,30,20,40,70), the output should be (-40,10,-30) i.e. (10-50,30-20,40-70)

I can do this in a loop like so

vec <- c(10,50,30,20,40,70)

newVec <- numeric(length(vec)/2)

sequence <- seq(1,length(vec),2)

for (i in 1:(length(vec)/2)) {
  newVec[[i]] <- vec[sequence[i]]-vec[sequence[i]+1]
}

> newVec
[1] -40  10 -30

This is a pretty ugly way to do it though so I was wondering if there was anything better?

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1 Answers

diff it:

-diff(matrix(vec, nrow=2))
#     [,1] [,2] [,3]
#[1,]  -40   10  -30
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