Program a sequence of words in a Vector using R

Question

How can you create a vector in R which consists of a sequence of different words?

Something like Vec_Sex: for 0 to 6, input "Male" and for 7 to 9, input "Female"...

I know shortcuts like rep(1:3,times=4) etc... But even after flicking through my lecture notes and a goole search, I'm unsure how to achieve this with words and when the amount of elements that contain that word differ...

Outcome would be something like:

Vec_Sex = [ Male, Male, Male, Male, Male, Male, Male, Female, Female, Female ]

Thanks.

Answer 1

Just use rep and c. Examples:

c(rep("Male", 7), rep("Female", 3))
# [1] "Male"   "Male"   "Male"   "Male"   "Male"   "Male"   "Male"   "Female" "Female" "Female"
rep(c("Male", "Female"), times = c(7, 3))
# [1] "Male"   "Male"   "Male"   "Male"   "Male"   "Male"   "Male"   "Female" "Female" "Female"

Note that times can be a vector specifying how many times to repeat each element.

Also, note that R starts indexing at 1, not zero.