Try this:
unSpells[tail(Atr,1)==0] <- apply(Atr,2,function(x)sum(x==0))[tail(Atr,1)==0]

Or (if you don't have to preserve the value in the unSpells vector):
unSpells <- apply(Atr,2,function(x)sum(x==0))
But in this case you have 0 instead of 1 in the second and fourth position.

Ciao,
domenico

Mario Lavezzi wrote:
Hello,
I have the following problem.

I am running simulations on possible states of a set of agents (1=employed, 0=unemployed).

I store these simulated time series in a matrix like the following, where rows indicates time periods, columns the number of agents (4 agents and 8 periods in this case):

Atr=[
1    1    1    1
1    1    0    1
1    1    0    1
1    1    0    1
0    1    0    1
0    1    0    1
0    1    0    1
0    1    0    1]

At this point, I need to update a vector ("unSpells") which contains the lenghts of unemployment spells, and is initialized with ones. Practically, in the case represented I need to store the value "4" at position 1 of unSpells and "7" at position 3 of unSpells (that is, I care only of those who, in the last row, are zeros).

I am doing this in the following way (tt+1 indicates the time period reached by the simulation, n the number of agents):

unSpells = matrix(1,nrow=1,ncol=n) ppp=apply(Atr[1:(tt+1),],2,rle)
   for(i in (1:n)[Atr[tt+1,]==0]){
       unSpells[i]=tail(ppp[[i]]$lengths,1)
   }

It works, but the for (i in ...) loop slows down the simulation a lot.

Any suggestion on how to avoid this loop? (or in general, to speed up this part of the simulation)

Thanks!!
Mario


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