Hi R folks, I have a massive array (object name "points") in the following form
[,1] [,2] [1,] 1369 22 [2,] 1370 22 [3,] 1368 23 [4,] 1369 23 [5,] 1370 23 [6,] 1371 23 (10080 rows truncated) These represent pixel coordinates of interest in a jpeg image. I need to find the distance from each point to all other points of interest. The only way I can see to do this is by pythagoras and nested for loops. distance<-function(x1,y1,x2,y2){sqrt((x2-x1)^2 + (y2-y1)^2)} #pythagoras for(i in 1:nrow(points)){ for(j in 1:nrow(points)){ dist<-c(dist,distance(points[i,1],point.array.indices[i,2],points[j,1],points[j,2])) } } This is obviously prohibitively slow with >10000 rows in the array. Any thoughts on how to do this without for loops? I apologize in advance if there is an obvious way around this. Thanks! Andrew Barr University of Texas at Austin ______________________________________________ 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.