[R] How to?

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Yves Gauvreau wrote:

> I tried the function you proposed and I get an error:
> 
> Error in substr(x, as.integer(start), as.integer(stop)) :
>         invalid argument in substr()
> 
> I must admit I don't understand the use of substr() in this case, x being a
> numerical vector. I understand that your using it to provide FUN with its
> argument i.e. the window of data. I'm using R1.1 on NT does this mean it
> could work width with the newer version?

I said `something like' (that's code for `I haven't tried this'), and I
mis-remembered what substr does. Try this:

mywinfun <- function(x, width, FUN, ...)
{
    n <- length(x)
    A <- rep(x, length=width*(n+1))
    dim(A) <- c(n+1, width)
    sapply(split(A, row(A)), FUN, ...)[1:(n-width)]
}

It's more efficient than embed, and more efficient that apply(A, 1,...)
in this case.  But there are limits to how efficient interpreted R code
gets in such problems.

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