Try something like this. This setups the "<" condition and then uses 'xor' to flip it to ">=" assuming that you are using the same values
# test data n <- 5 # number of columns m <- 100 # number of rows x <- matrix(sample(1:10, n * m, TRUE), ncol=n, nrow=m) # create tests assuming you want to know if things are greater than or less than a value test <- apply(x, 2, "<", 5) # setup all combinations to test for comb <- expand.grid(rep(list(c(TRUE, FALSE)), n)) result <- lapply(seq(nrow(comb)), function(.row){ # apply the test using 'xor' to change the conditions from "<" to ">=" x[apply(test, 1, function(z) all(xor(z, comb[.row,]))),,drop=FALSE] }) On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:32 AM, cruz <crua...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a big matrix X with M rows and N columns that I want to filter > it into smaller ones with m (<M) rows and N columns. > The filter rule is based on the values of each columns, i.e. > > X looks like this: > column name: a, b, c, d, ... etc > > a b c d ... > 1 2 3 4 ... > 5 6 7 8 ... > 9 8 7 6 ... > ... ... ... ... > > The filter rule with the result that I want is: > > X[X$a<5 & X$b<5 & X$c<5 & X$d<5 ...etc ,] > X[X$a<5 & X$b<5 & X$c<5 & X$d>=5 ...etc ,] > X[X$a<5 & X$b<5 & X$c>=5 & X$d<5 ...etc ,] > ... ... ... > ... > > with all the possible combinations which is 2^M > > I try to use multiple for loops to separate it: > > for (i in 1:2) > for (j in 1:2) > for (k in 1:2) > ... ... > assign(paste(i,j,k,...,sep="")), X[if (i==1) paste("X$a<5") > else paste("X$a>=5") & if (i==1) paste("X$b<5") else paste("X$b>=5") & > ..., ]) > > # there might be syntax errors, I just want to clearly describe my problem > > Since paste("X$a>=5") gives type of character; whereas the type of > X$a>=5 should be logical. > > How can I do this? > > All thoughts are greatly appreciated. > > Many Thanks, > cruz > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.