[R] intersect() question

[Andrej Kastrin]

Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> Define a generalized crossproduct and then apply it with
> the indicated function.  Multiply the diagonal elements by
> zero as the sample output seems to be forcing them that way.
>
> mm <- matrix(c(5, 1, 6, 6, 5, 7, 7, 3, 2), 3) # test matrix
>
> # generalized crossproduct
> inner <- function(a,b=a,f=crossprod)
>     apply(b,2,function(x)apply(a,2,function(y)f(x,y)))
>
> inner(mm, f = function(x,y) length(intersect(x,y))) * !diag(ncol(mm))
>
>
>
> On 7/15/06, Andrej Kastrin <andrej.kastrin at siol.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a matrix containing ID numbers in each column. I would like to
>> program function which calculate common number of ID numbers between
>> each pair of columns.
>>
>> Suppose:
>>
>> 5 6 7
>> 1 5 3
>> 6 7 2
>>
>> Then the result should be:
>>
>> 0 2 0
>> 2 0 1
>> 0 1 0
>>
>> The main problem is how to implement intersect() function to walk
>> through each pair of columns and write result to result matrix.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestion, Andrej
>>
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Thanks for fine solution.