On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:58 AM, loyolite270 <loyolite...@gmail.com> wrote: > oh sorry .. > > The detailed description of the problem is given below > > dataFrame is matrix of dim 100X100 with some values
Odd name for something that's not a dataFrame.... (i.e., data.frame != matrix) > a is a vector of length 1 > x is a vector of any length between 1 to 99 > > funcScore<-function(a,x){ > > sc<-0 > sc1<-0 > > for(j in 1:(length(x))){ > sc<-sc+abs(dataFrame[a,x[j]]) > } > > if(length(x)==1){ > sc1<-0 > } > > else{ > if(length(x)>1){ > for(i in 1:(length(x)-1)){ > for(j in (i+1):(length(x))){ > sc1 <- sc1+abs(dataFrame[(x[i]-1),x[j]]) > } > } > } > } > score <- sc-sc1 > return(score) > } Surely you can write this more efficiently: score <- function(a, x, datfrm){ sc <- sum(abs(datfrm[a, x])) # Something similar for sc1 sc - sc1 } Depending on how fast you get it (and I expect massive speed ups upon rewrite if you vectorize properly), an exhaustive search via combn() or expand.grid() might work -- otherwise, see combinatorial optimization pointers, as I noted earlier. Best, Michael > > Given the value of "a", i would like to use some optimization function ( > value of x) to maximize the score, such that x can be any combination ? > > Thanks > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Optimize-a-function-with-Discrete-inputs-tp4638644p4638851.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.