[R] Help regarding arules package

[jim holtman]

How about computing the 'lhs' of the rules once and then using that
information for the subsets.

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Daniel Wagner <danieljm1976 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear R experts,
>
> I need help to make my little program efficient which now takes 2hrs to complete.
>
> Using arules package I developed set of rules consisted of 900 rules. Now I want to check whether a lower rule is a subset of a higher premises rule. And if it is a subset of higher premises rule then drop this rule. I am using following code but it takes too much time.
>
>
> nor<-length(rules)
> k<-rep(T, nor)
> for(i in 1:(nor-1)){
>       for(j in (i+1):nor){
>          if((is.subset(lhs(rules[i]),lhs(rules[j])) & is.subset(rhs(rules[i]), rhs(rules[j])))==T){
>             k[i]<-F
>             break
>          }
>      }
> }
>
> Could somebody help me.
>
> Thanks
>
> Daniel
> Amsterdam
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