and further...
See ?Recall for how to do recursion in R.
However, it is my understanding that recursion is not that efficient
in R. A chain of function environments must be created, and this does
not scale well. (Comments from real experts welcome here).
Cheers,
Bert
Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics
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"Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge
is certainly not wisdom."
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Cade, Brian <ca...@usgs.gov> wrote:
> It is called sample(,replace=F), where the default argument is sampling
> without replacement.
> Try
> x <- c("A","B","C","D","E")
> sample(x)
>
> Brian
>
> Brian S. Cade, PhD
>
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>
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>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Robert Latest <boblat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So my company has hired a few young McKinsey guys from overseas for a
>> couple of weeks to help us with a production line optimization. They
>> probably charge what I make in a year, but that's OK because I just
>> never have the time to really dive into one particular time, and I have
>> to hand it to the consultants that they came up with one or two really
>> clever ideas to model the production line. Of course it's up to me to
>> feed them the real data which they then churn through their Excel
>> models that they cook up during the nights in their hotel rooms, and
>> which I then implement back into my experimental system using live data.
>>
>> Anyway, whenever they need something or come up with something I skip
>> out of the room, hack it into R, export the CSV and come back in about
>> half the time it takes Excel to even read in the data, let alone
>> process it. Of course that gor them curious, and I showed off a couple
>> of scripts that condense their abysmal Excel convolutions in a few
>> lean and mean lines of R code.
>>
>> Anyway, I'm in my office with this really attractive, clever young
>> McKinsey girl (I'm in my mid-forties, married with kids and all, but I
>> still enjoyed impressing a woman with computer stuff, of all things!),
>> and one of her models involves a simple permutation of five letters --
>> "A" through "E".
>>
>> And that's when I find out that R doesn't have a permutation function.
>> How is that possible? R has EVERYTHING, but not that? I'm
>> flabbergasted. Stumped. And now it's up to me to spend the evening at
>> home coding that model, and the only thing I really need is that
>> permutation.
>>
>> So this is my first attempt:
>>
>> perm.broken <- function(x) {
>> if (length(x) == 1) return(x)
>> sapply(1:length(x), function(i) {
>> cbind(x[i], perm(x[-i]))
>> })
>> }
>>
>> But it doesn't work:
>> > perm.broken(c("A", "B", "C"))
>> [,1] [,2] [,3]
>> [1,] "A" "B" "C"
>> [2,] "A" "B" "C"
>> [3,] "B" "A" "A"
>> [4,] "C" "C" "B"
>> [5,] "C" "C" "B"
>> [6,] "B" "A" "A"
>> >
>>
>> And I can't figure out for the life of me why. It should work because I
>> go through the elements of x in order, use that in the leftmost column,
>> and slap the permutation of the remaining elements to the right. What
>> strikes me as particularly odd is that there doesn't even seem to be a
>> systematic sequence of letters in any of the columns. OK, since I
>> really need that function I wrote this piece of crap:
>>
>> perm.stupid <- function(x) {
>> b <- as.matrix(expand.grid(rep(list(x), length(x))))
>> b[!sapply(1:nrow(b), function(r) any(duplicated(b[r,]))),]
>> }
>>
>> It works, but words cannot describe its ugliness. And it gets really
>> slow really fast with growing x.
>>
>> So, anyway. My two questions are:
>> 1. Does R really, really, seriously lack a permutation function?
>> 2. OK, stop kidding me. So what's it called?
>> 3. Why doesn't my recursive function work, and what would a
>> working version look like?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> robert
>>
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