On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:33:28PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
[...]
> > Unfortunately, there seems to be no equivalent for products
> > (e.g. "rowProds"). But you can define one:
> >
> > rowProds <- function(X){ apply(X,1,FUN="prod") }
> >
> > rowProds(A)
> > # [1] 6 14 24 36 50
> >
> > Even then, the result is a "simple R vector", without dimensions:
> >
> > dim(rowProds(A))
> > # NULL
> >
> > If you need an array (row) vector then you can apply t():
> >
> > t(rowProds(A))
> > # [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
> > # [1,] 6 14 24 36 50
> >
> > or t(t()) for a column vector:
> >
> > t(t(rowProds(A)))
> > # [,1]
> > # [1,] 6
> > # [2,] 14
> > # [3,] 24
> > # [4,] 36
> > # [5,] 50
> >
> > Ted.
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------
>
> Further to the above: I have managed to track down a
> function rowProds in the "matrixStats" package:
>
> http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/matrixStats/html/rowProds.html
>
> http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/web/packages/matrixStats/matrixStats.pdf
>
> Note that:
>
> "Details
> Internally the product is calculated via the logarithmic
> transform, treating zeros and negative values specially."
>
> In view of this, which strikes me as potentially getting
> close to thin ice, plus the overhead of loading a whole
> package just for one function, it may be more straightforward
> (and perhaps safer) to define one's own function (as above).
> Also (see the PDF reference manual) it is apparently "work
> in progress" and also has dependencies on other packages:
> see the description at
>
> http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/web/packages/matrixStats/index.html
Hi.
Computing the componentwise product of the columns may be
done also as follows.
rowProds2 <- function(a) Reduce("*", as.data.frame(a))
For a matrix with a large number of rows, this is more
efficient, since it contains a cycle over columns and
not a cycle over rows as apply(a, 1, prod).
rowProds <- function(X){ apply(X,1,FUN="prod") }
m <- 100000
a <- matrix(sample(0 + 1:10, 10*m, replace=TRUE), nrow=m, ncol=10)
t1 <- system.time( out1 <- rowProds(a))
t2 <- system.time( out2 <- rowProds2(a))
identical(out1, out2)
[1] TRUE
rbind(t1, t2)
user.self sys.self elapsed user.child sys.child
t1 0.550 0.003 0.553 0 0
t2 0.049 0.013 0.062 0 0
Petr Savicky.
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