-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 jim holtman wrote: > Why don't you generate all the possible combinations using 'combn' and > then use that matrix to address your data:
I had thought of using this, however the size of data I'm using will more likely be orders of magnitude larger, such as: > dim(m) [1] 10000 10000 Which takes looooong time to compute using: indx <- combn(10000, 3) > >> m <- matrix(1:25,5) >> indx <- combn(5, 3) >> indx > [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10] > [1,] 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 > [2,] 2 2 2 3 3 4 3 3 4 4 > [3,] 3 4 5 4 5 5 4 5 5 5 > >> mxy <- m[cbind(indx[1,], indx[2,])] >> >> >> mxy > [1] 6 6 6 11 11 16 12 12 17 18 > > You can use each of the columns as x,y,z values and compute everything at > once. > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Nathan S. Watson-Haigh > <nathan.watson-ha...@csiro.au> wrote: > I've written a function in R which takes a symmetrical matrix as input and > processes all triplicate combinations of values from the matrix. The function > looks something like: > > my_fun <- function(m) { > if( nrow(mat) != ncol(mat) ) { > stop("'m' must be a square matrix") > } > > size <- nrow(m) > > for(x in 1:(size -2)) { > for(y in (x+1):(size -1)) { > xy <- m[x,y] > > for(z in (y+1):size ) { > xz <- m[x,z] > yz <- m[y,z] > > # do something with xy, xz, yz > } > } > } > } > > I'd like to speed this up since when size gets > a few thousand, I estimate it > would take 3yrs to complete the "do something" task. I could implement the "do > something" in C and have it called from within the nested for loops in R, but > I > think I should get better performance if I implement the for loops in C as > well. > As such, I'm trying to get my head around looping through matrix values when > passed to .C() > > As I understand it, once a matrix (n x m in size) is passed to .C() it is seen > as an unwrapped array of length n*m. Could someone help/guide me in > implementing > this? > > Cheers, > Nathan > > >> ______________________________________________ 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. >> - -- - -------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Nathan S. Watson-Haigh OCE Post Doctoral Fellow CSIRO Livestock Industries Queensland Bioscience Precinct St Lucia, QLD 4067 Australia Tel: +61 (0)7 3214 2922 Fax: +61 (0)7 3214 2900 Web: http://www.csiro.au/people/Nathan.Watson-Haigh.html - -------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmTeucACgkQ9gTv6QYzVL7dvwCaAgQKGrZOrsZF0nhn0qJo4Irx zYIAnAgxgHTqEnKe7dANNIqhmm0Hu6QY =iTyc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ______________________________________________ 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.