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TraMineR (version 2.2-10)

seqlength: Sequence length

Description

Returns the length of sequences.

Usage

seqlength(seqdata, with.missing=TRUE)

Arguments

seqdata

a sequence object created with the seqdef function.

with.missing

logical: should non-void missing values be treated as a regular state? Default is TRUE. If FALSE missing values are considered as void.

Author

Alexis Gabadinho and Gilbert Ritschard

Details

The length of a sequence is computed by counting its number of non void elements, i.e. including non-void missing values. The seqlength function returns a vector containing the length of each sequence in the provided sequence object.

See Also

seqlength.align

Examples

Run this code
## Loading the 'famform' example data set
data(famform)

## Defining a sequence object with the 'famform' data set
ff.seq <- seqdef(famform)

## Retrieving the length of the sequences
## in the ff.seq sequence object
seqlength(ff.seq)

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