Don't know how else to phrase this question.
Say I want to split a number (514) into 20 approximately equal parts, and I want to know what each number would be. So for example, if I want to split 10 into 3 parts, I would want something like 3, 6, 10.
I know I can do something somewhat similar to what I want with cut
unique(cut(1:514,breaks=20)) which gives me the following output
[1] (0.487,26.6] (26.6,52.3] (52.3,77.9] (77.9,104] (104,129] (129,155] (155,181] [8] (181,206] (206,232] (232,258] (258,283] (283,309] (309,334] (334,360] [15] (360,386] (386,411] (411,437] (437,463] (463,488] (488,515] I can see those are the approximate breaks, but how can I just get the 20 integers where the breaks are?
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This might work well enough in many cases:
round(seq(1, 514, by = 514/20))[-1]
You could also use floor or ceiling in place of round if that gets closer. Think of it as counting by 514/20ths.