Hi, May be this: N <- 1000 M <- 5 P <- 5000 set.seed(15) A <- matrix(runif(N,1,1000),nrow=N,ncol=M) set.seed(425) B <- matrix(runif(M,1,1000),nrow=P,ncol=M)
Marius.3.0<-function(A,B){do.call(cbind,lapply(split(B,row(B)),function(x) colSums(x>=t(A))==ncol(A)))} system.time(Marius.3.0(A,B)) # user system elapsed # 0.524 0.000 0.523 system.time(Marius.2.0(A,B)) # user system elapsed # 0.972 0.236 1.212 system.time(perhaps(A,B)) # user system elapsed #1.232 0.244 1.482 system.time(Marius(A,B)) # user system elapsed # 19.266 0.000 19.298 With the toy example: A <- rbind(matrix(1:4, ncol=2, byrow=TRUE), c(6, 2)) # (3, 2) matrix B <- matrix(1:10, ncol=2) # (5, 2) matrix ind <- apply(B, 1, function(b) apply(A, 1, function(a) all(a <= b))) ind # [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] #[1,] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE #[2,] FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE #[3,] FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE Marius.3.0(A,B) # 1 2 3 4 5 #[1,] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE #[2,] FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE #[3,] FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE str(ind) # logi [1:3, 1:5] TRUE FALSE FALSE TRUE FALSE FALSE ... str(Marius.3.0(A,B)) # logi [1:3, 1:5] TRUE FALSE FALSE TRUE FALSE FALSE ... #- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2 #..$ : NULL #..$ : chr [1:5] "1" "2" "3" "4" ... A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Marius Hofert <marius.hof...@math.ethz.ch> To: R-help <r-help@r-project.org> Cc: Sent: Saturday, December 8, 2012 6:28 AM Subject: [R] How to efficiently compare each row in a matrix with each row in another matrix? Dear expeRts, I have two matrices A and B. They have the same number of columns but possibly different number of rows. I would like to compare each row of A with each row of B and check whether all entries in a row of A are less than or equal to all entries in a row of B. Here is a minimal working example: A <- rbind(matrix(1:4, ncol=2, byrow=TRUE), c(6, 2)) # (3, 2) matrix B <- matrix(1:10, ncol=2) # (5, 2) matrix ( ind <- apply(B, 1, function(b) apply(A, 1, function(a) all(a <= b))) ) # (3, 5) = (nrow(A), nrow(B)) matrix The question is: How can this be implemented more efficiently in R, that is, in a faster way? Thanks & cheers, Marius ______________________________________________ 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.