combn() gives ordered combinations, while expand.grid() gives all combinations.
I'd give worked code but this hints at homework to me. Sarah On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Eik Vettorazzi <e.vettora...@uke.de> wrote: > Hi, > not sure if that is what you are looking for, but have a look at > > cmb<-t(combn(c(0,3,5,8),2)) #get all pairs of combinations > cbind(cmb,apply(cmb,1,diff)) #for each pair, get the difference > > cheers > > > Am 01.08.2012 12:29, schrieb loyolite270: >> Hi >> >> I need to optimize the below function: >> >> a=function(x){ >> A=x[1] >> B=x[2] >> C=B-A >> return(C) >> } >> >> I need to optimize the above function such that x can be any combination of >> these number (0,3,5,8) of vector length 2 >> (i.e) x can be (3,0), (5,0), (8,0), (3,5), (3,8), (5,8), ...... etc >> >> can someone please help me solve this problem ? >> >> >> -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ 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.