Data segmentation using R programming

Question

This data from accelerometer device has  x, y, z components table. My problem is that on a specific column I want to select data segments using R code.

How can I this be done?

Example: lets say this is the column

2, 1, 3, 0, 0, 0, 1, 4, 5, 1, 0, 0, 0, 2, 3, 0, 4, 5, 0, 0, 0

My result must be a subsets like this

(2, 1, 3), (1, 4, 5, 1), (2, 3, 0, 4, 5)

stored in a variables that I can reuse. I am basically taking data segments between three consecutive zeros. How can I achieve this in R programming?

Answer 1

I tried solving your problem, try the below code:

column <- c(2, 1, 3, 0, 0, 0, 1, 4, 5, 1, 0, 0, 0, 2, 3, 0, 4, 5, 0, 0, 0)

# answer
columnS <- paste(column, collapse="-") 
columnS <- gsub("0-0-0", "=", columnS) 
ds <- strsplit(columnS, "=") 
ds <- strsplit(ds[[1]], "-") 
ds <- lapply(ds, function(x){return(as.numeric(x[x!=""]))})
print(ds)

Hope it helps