Max consecutive increase in sequence

Hi all R helpers,

I'm trying to comeup with nice and elegant way of "detecting" consecutive
increases/decreases in the sequence of numbers. I'm trying with combination
of which() and diff() functions but unsuccesifuly.

For example:

sq <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1);

I'd like to find way to calculate

a) maximum consecutive increase = 3 (from 1 to 4)
b) maximum consecutive decrease = 5 (from 6 to 1)

All ideas are highly welcomed!





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