Add the results of RLE to the original data frame in R

I have a data frame containing dates and for each date the number of events that took place. From this I add a field telling me if the number of events was above average or not.

From this, if I perform an RLE I get

How can I use this information to add an addition field as below to my original data frame:

>Solution :

You seem to be looking for the rle lengths, each repeated by itself, then multiplied by the sign of the Above Average column

library(dplyr)

df %>%
  mutate(`Run Above Av` = rep(rle(`Above Average`)$lengths,
            times = rle(`Above Average`)$lengths) * sign(`Above Average`))
#>    Date Events Above Average Run Above Av
#> 1 01/01      7             0            0
#> 2 02/01      8             1            2
#> 3 03/01      8             1            2
#> 4 04/01      6             0            0
#> 5 05/01      8             1            2
#> 6 06/01      9             1            2
#> 7 07/01      4             0            0
#> 8 08/01      7             0            0

Data from question in reproducible format

df <- structure(list(Date = c("01/01", "02/01", "03/01", "04/01", "05/01", 
"06/01", "07/01", "08/01"), Events = c(7L, 8L, 8L, 6L, 8L, 9L, 
4L, 7L), `Above Average` = c(0L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 0L)), 
class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -8L))

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