[R] comparing two matrices

[Bill.Venables at csiro.au]

But this is using paste() the wrong way round. A better way would be

> join <- function(x) do.call("paste", c(as.data.frame(x), sep = "\r"))
> which(join(mat1) %in% join(mat2))
[1]  8 13 16 19 24

This is essentially the technique used by duplicated.data.frame

Bill Venables 

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Sent: Sunday, 21 January 2007 8:17 PM
To: Dimitris Rizopoulos
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Subject: Re: [R] comparing two matrices

On Sunday 21 January 2007 12:04, Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote:
> I think the following should work in your case:
>
> mat1 <- data.matrix(expand.grid(0:2, 0:2, 0:2))
> mat2 <- mat1[c(19, 16, 13, 24, 8), ]
> ############
> ind1 <- apply(mat1, 1, paste, collapse = "/")
> ind2 <- apply(mat2, 1, paste, collapse = "/")
> match(ind2, ind1)


Oh yes, I thought about that too.
It works fast enough for small matrices, but I deal with very large
ones. 
Using paste() on such matrices decreases the speed dramatically.

Thanks again,
Adrian

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