How to do it...

Perform the following steps in R:

>install.packages("TraMineR")
> library(TraMineR)
> data("mvad")
> head(mvad)
>alphabet = seqstatl(mvad[,17:86])
Output
[1] "employment" "FE" "HE" "joblessness" "school"
"training"
> fulllabel<- c("employment", "further education",
"higher education","joblessness", "school", "training")
> shortlabel<- c("EM", "FE", "HE", "JL", "SC", "TR")
> seq_mvad<- seqdef(mvad[, 17:86], alphabet = alphabet,
states = shortlabel, labels = fulllabel, weights = mvad$weight,
xtstep = 6)
Output
[>] state coding:
[alphabet] [label] [long label]
1 employment EM employment
2 FEFE further education
3 HEHE higher education
4 joblessness JL joblessness
5 school SC school
6 training TR training
[>] sum of weights: 711.57 - min/max: 0.13/4.46
[>] 712 sequences in the data set
[>] min/max sequence length: 70/70
> seq_mvad[1:2,]
Output
Sequence
1 EM-EM-EM-EM-TR-TR-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM
-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-
EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM
-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM-EM
2 FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-
FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-FE-
FE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-
HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE-HE
> print(seq_mvad[1:2,],format="SPS")
Output
Sequence
[1] (EM,4)-(TR,2)-(EM,64)
[2] (FE,36)-(HE,34)
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