[R] For Loop performance

[mcoyne at boninc.com]

WRT:  Say length(V1) is n, do you want to compare
> v1[1] with v2[1] and v2[2] and v1[2] with v2[3] and v2[4]
> or
> v1[1] with v2[1] and v2[n+1] and v1[2] with v2[2] and v2[n+2]

v1[1] with (v2[1] and v2[2])
v1[2] with (v2[3] and v2[4])
v1[3] with (v2[5] and v2[6])
....
...
v1[n] with (v2[n+1] and v2[n+2])

I hope this is clear (I think I was wrong in the snippet of code earlier).
 Thanks in advance.

--MyC

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> My Coyne wrote:
>> Hello,
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>> Newbie question and hope you can help .
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>> I have two vector V1 and V2, where length(V2) = length of (V1) * 2;
>> length(V1) ~ 16,000.
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>> For each member in V1, I need to compare 2 element of V2 for equality
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> If just the comparison is concerned, you can do it in vectorized form,
> but I am not sure of you want to comapre v1[i] with v2[i] and v2[i+1],
> otherwise it would not make sense that  length(V2) = length of (V1) * 2
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> Say length(V1) is n, do you want to compare
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> v1[1] with v2[1] and v2[2] and v1[2] with v2[3] and v2[4]
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> v1[1] with v2[1] and v2[n+1] and v1[2] with v2[2] and v2[n+2]
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> ???
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> Uwe Ligges
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>> i.e.
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>> for (I in 1:length (V1)) {
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>>      if ( v2[i] == v1[i] & v2[i+1]==v1[i] ){
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>>           statement_1
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>>           statement_2
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>>           .
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>>      }
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>> }
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>> This for-loop is too slow (it takes a good 5 minutes on my Windows
>> machine)
>> to  finish processing the vector V1 of 16,000; I will need to process a
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>> more than 16,000  (about 300*16,000).
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>> Is there a better way to do looping with R?  Any help is greatly
>> appreciate
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>> --MyC.
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