For this particular proble (counting), doesn't cumsum solve it effectively and efficiently?
vv <- cumsum(v) vv[n:length(vv)] - vv[1:(length(vv)-n+1] Of course, this doesn't work for the general case of an arbitrary sliding window function. -s On 12/15/08, Chris Oldmeadow <c.oldmea...@student.qut.edu.au> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a very large binary vector, I wish to calculate the number of > 1's over sliding windows. > > this is my very slow function > > slide<-function(seq,window){ > n<-length(seq)-window > tot<-c() > tot[1]<-sum(seq[1:window]) > for (i in 2:n) { > tot[i]<- tot[i-1]-seq[i-1]+seq[i] > } > return(tot) > } > > this works well for for reasonably sized vectors. Does anybody know a > way for large vectors ( length=12 million), im trying to avoid using C. > > Thanks, > Chris > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Sent from my mobile device ______________________________________________ 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.