seanpor wrote: > fyi On my machine match runs *much* faster... > > Not too surprising. sapply and other apply-methods are usually expedient, but not efficient.
The order(X)[Y] method should be faster still, although perhaps not measurably so, and of course it is less general. >> t0 <- Sys.time(); for (i in 1:reps) { match(Y,X) }; print(Sys.time() - t0) >> > Time difference of 0.1570001 secs > >> t0 <- Sys.time(); for (i in 1:reps) { sapply(Y,function(Y){which(Y==X)}) >> }; print(Sys.time() - t0) >> > Time difference of 6.093 secs > >> 6.09/.157 >> > [1] 38.78981 > > Regards, > Sean > > > Peter Dalgaard wrote: > >> Ingmar Visser wrote: >> >>> does this do what you want? >>> >>> sapply(y,function(y){which(y==x)}) >>> >>> >> Maybe, but match(Y,X) would be more to the point. >> >> >>> hth, Ingmar >>> >>> On 28 Nov 2007, at 15:53, Serguei Kaniovski wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Hallo, >>>> >>>> I have two vectors of different lengths which contain the same set of >>>> values: >>>> >>>> X < -c(2,6,1,7,4,3,5) >>>> Y <- c(1,1,6,4,6,1,4,1,2,3,6,6,1,2,4,4,5,4,1,7,6,6,4,4,7,1,2) >>>> >>>> How can I replace the values in Y with the index (!) of the >>>> corresponding >>>> values in X. So 2 appears in X in the first coordinate, so all 2�s >>>> in Y >>>> should be replaced by 1, etc. >>>> >>>> Thank you for your help, >>>> Serguei >>>> >>>> ________________________________________ >>>> Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) >>>> >>>> P.O.Box 91 Tel.: +43-1-7982601-231 >>>> 1103 Vienna, Austria Fax: +43-1-7989386 >>>> >>>> Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> http://www.wifo.ac.at/Serguei.Kaniovski >>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>>> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- >>>> guide.html >>>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >>>> >>>> >>> Ingmar Visser >>> Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam >>> Roetersstraat 15 >>> 1018 WB Amsterdam >>> The Netherlands >>> t: +31-20-5256723 >>> >>> >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >>> >>> >> -- >> O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B >> c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K >> (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) >> 35327918 >> ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) >> 35327907 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> >> > > -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.