[R] [Fwd: Re: How to apply functions over rows of multiple matrices]

[Gabor Grothendieck]

1. matrices are stored columnwise so R is better at column-wise operations
than row-wise.

2. Here is one way to do it (although I am not sure its better than the
index approach):

   row.apply <- function(f, a, b)
      t(mapply(f, as.data.frame(t(a)), as.data.frame(t(b))))

3. The code for the example in this post could be simplified to:

    first.1 <- apply(cbind(goldstandard, 1), 1, which.max)
    ifelse(col(newtest) > first.1, NA, newtest)

4. given that both examples did not inherently need row by row operations
   I wonder if that is the wrong generalization in the first place?


On 8/10/07, Johannes Hüsing <johannes at huesing.name> wrote:
> [Apologies to Gabor, who I sent a personal copy of the reply
> erroneously instead of posting to List directly]
>
> [...]
> >  Perhaps what you really intend is to
> > take the average over those elements in each row of the first matrix
> which correspond to 1's in the second in the corresponding
> > row of the second.  In that case its just:
> >
> > rowSums(newtest * goldstandard) / rowSums(goldstandard)
> >
>
> Thank you for clearing my thoughts about the particular example.
> My question was a bit more general though, as I have different
> functions which are applied row-wise to multiple matrices. An
> example that sets all values of a row of matrix A to NA after the
> first occurrence of TRUE in matrix B.
>
> fillfrom <- function(applvec, testvec=NULL) {
>  if (is.null(testvec)) testvec <- applvec
>  if (length(testvec) != length(applvec)) {
>    stop("applvec and testvec have to be of same length!")
>  } else if(any(testvec, na.rm=TRUE)) {
>    applvec[min(which(testvec)) : length(applvec)] <- NA
>  }
>  applvec
> }
>
> fillafter <- function(applvec, testvec=NULL) {
>  if (is.null(testvec)) testvec <- applvec
>  fillfrom(applvec, c(FALSE, testvec[-length(testvec)]))
> }
>
> numtest <- 6
> numsubj <- 20
>
> newtest <- array(rbinom(numtest*numsubj, 1, .5),
>    dim=c(numsubj, numtest))
> goldstandard <- array(rbinom(numtest*numsubj, 1, .5),
>    dim=c(numsubj, numtest))
>
> newtest.NA <- t(sapply(1:nrow(newtest), function(i) {
>  fillafter(newtest[i,], goldstandard[i,]==1)}))
>
> My general question is if R provides some syntactic sugar
> for the awkward sapply(1:nrow(A)) expression. Maybe in this
> case there is also a way to bypass the apply mechanism and
> my way of thinking about the problem has to be adapted. But
> as the *apply calls are galore in R, I feel this is a standard
> way of dealing with vectors and matrices.
>
>
>
>
>
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