Dear all, The function f() below is a function of m1 and m2, both of which are matrices with 3 rows. The function works sequentially one row after another. So altogether there are three stages. I am trying to update the coding to write a generic function that will work for arbitrary k stages. I am hoping to get some suggestion and help. Thanks so much! Hanna
##x, y are two vectors of the same length f0 <- function(x, y){ I <- which((x-y)^2>0.5) if (length(I)==0){ a <- 0; b <-0; c<- 0 } else { a <- min(I) b <- x[a] c <- y[a]} return(list(a=a, b=b, c=c)) } ##both m1 and m2 are matrix with 3 rows and same number of columns f <- function(m1, m2){ n <- dim(m1)[2] tmp1 <- f0(m1[1,], m2[1,]) S2 <- which(m1[1,] > tmp1$a) if (length(S2) == 0){ t1 <- c(tmp1$b, 0, 0) t2 <- c(tmp1$c, 0, 0)} else { tmp2 <- f0(m1[2,S2], m2[2, (n-length(S2)+1):n]) S3 <- S2[which(m2[2, S2] > tmp2$a)] if (length(S3) == 0) { t1 <- c(tmp1$b, tmp2$b, 0) t2 <- c(tmp1$c, tmp2$c, 0)} else { tmp3 <- f0(m1[3,S3], m2[3, (n-length(S3)+1):n]) t1 <- c(tmp1$b, tmp2$b, tmp3$c) t2 <- c(tmp1$c, tmp2$c, tmp3$b) }} return(list(t1=t1, t2=t2)) } [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.