Hi not sure if this is what you want. It does not do fuzzy matching but make a exact evaluation equal row sums of arrays.
rle(do.call("c",lapply(lapply(l, rowSums), function(x) paste(x, collapse="")))) Maybe something similar can be done without conversion to character. Regards Petr [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal dne 24.10.2008 12:34:15: > Dear friends > Hope you all are fine. Suppose we have a list of arrays. > a1=c(4,4,4,4,0,4,4,4,0,3,3,0,0,0,0,0); a1=array(a1,dim=c(4,4)); a2=c(4,4,4, > 4,0,4,4,4,0,3,3,0,0,0,0,0); a2=array(a2,dim=c(4,4)); > a3=c(4,4,4,4,0,3,3,4,0,4,4,0,0,0,0,0); a3=array(a3,dim=c(4,4)); a4=c(4,4,4,4, > 4,0,3,3,3,3,0,4,4,4,0,0,0,0,0,0); a4=array(a4,dim=c(5,4)); a5=c(4,4,4,4,4,0,4, > 4,4,4,0,3,3,3,0,0,1,1,0,0); a5=array(a5,dim=c(5,4)); a6=c(4,4,4,4,4,0,1,1,1,1, > 0,4,4,4,0,0,3,3,0,0); a6=array(a6,dim=c(5,4)); a7=c(1,1,1,1,1,0,4,4,4,4,0,3,3, > 3,0,0,4,4,0,0); a7=array(a7,dim=c(5,4)); a8=c(4,4,4,4,4,0,3,3,3,3,0,1,1,1,0,0, > 4,4,0,0); a8=array(a8,dim=c(5,4)); > l=list(a1,a2,a3,a4,a5,a6,a7,a8); > > x <- sapply(1:length(l), function(x) { > sum(sapply(l, function(y) { > if ( nrow(l[[x]]) != nrow(y) | ncol(l[[x]]) != ncol(y) ) FALSE > else sum(y != l[[x]]) == 0 > })) > } ); l; x > > Using the above function, we are able to get frequency of each most repeated > similar components of the list. For example, [[1]] and [[2]] are most repeated > similar out of all. But if we consider the "combinations" at each row of each > array. Then [[3]] will be included with [[1]] and [[2]]. Also [[5]], [[6]] and > [[8]] will be similar. How can we modify the above function to get the desired > most repeated sequence in this case? Any help in this regard is needed. > > best regards > M.Azam > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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.