[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > WRT: Say length(V1) is n, do you want to compare >> v1[1] with v2[1] and v2[2] and v1[2] with v2[3] and v2[4] >> or >> v1[1] with v2[1] and v2[n+1] and v1[2] with v2[2] and v2[n+2] > > v1[1] with (v2[1] and v2[2]) > v1[2] with (v2[3] and v2[4]) > v1[3] with (v2[5] and v2[6]) > .... > ... > v1[n] with (v2[n+1] and v2[n+2])
So you end up with all comparisons by: v2m <- matrix(v2, ncol=2, byrow=TRUE) logical_result <- (v1 == v2m[,1]) & (v1 == v2m[,2]) Now you can (1) apply vectorized statements (e.g. using ifelse()) OR (if 1 is impossible) (2): for (I in which(logical_result)) { statement_1 statement_2 } Uwe Ligges > I hope this is clear (I think I was wrong in the snippet of code earlier). > Thanks in advance. > > --MyC > >> >> My Coyne wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> >>> Newbie question and hope you can help . >>> >>> I have two vector V1 and V2, where length(V2) = length of (V1) * 2; >>> length(V1) ~ 16,000. >>> >>> For each member in V1, I need to compare 2 element of V2 for equality >> >> If just the comparison is concerned, you can do it in vectorized form, >> but I am not sure of you want to comapre v1[i] with v2[i] and v2[i+1], >> otherwise it would not make sense that length(V2) = length of (V1) * 2 >> ... >> >> Say length(V1) is n, do you want to compare >> >> v1[1] with v2[1] and v2[2] and v1[2] with v2[3] and v2[4] >> or >> v1[1] with v2[1] and v2[n+1] and v1[2] with v2[2] and v2[n+2] >> >> ??? >> >> Uwe Ligges >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> >>> i.e. >>> >>> for (I in 1:length (V1)) { >>> >>> if ( v2[i] == v1[i] & v2[i+1]==v1[i] ){ >>> >>> statement_1 >>> >>> statement_2 >>> >>> . >>> >>> } >>> >>> } >>> >>> >>> >>> This for-loop is too slow (it takes a good 5 minutes on my Windows >>> machine) >>> to finish processing the vector V1 of 16,000; I will need to process a >>> lot >>> more than 16,000 (about 300*16,000). >>> >>> >>> >>> Is there a better way to do looping with R? Any help is greatly >>> appreciate >>> >>> >>> >>> --MyC. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> [[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. > > ______________________________________________ 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.