[R] finding a faster way to do an iterative computation

[dxc13]

Thank you to all who applied.  These all seem to work the way I want them to. 
The outer function seems really useful, I probably could use that for a lot
of my work.
Thanks!

Rolf Turner-3 wrote:
> 
> 
> On 30/07/2008, at 6:12 AM, dxc13 wrote:
> 
>>
>> useR's,
>>
>> I am trying trying to find out if there is a faster way to do a  
>> certain
>> computation.  I have successfully used FOR loops and the apply  
>> function to
>> do this, but it can take some time to fully compute, but I was  
>> wondering if
>> anyone may know of a different function or way to do this:
>>> x
>> [1] 1 2 3 4 5
>>> xk
>>  [1] 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 5.5 6.0
>>
>> I want to do: abs(x-xk[i]) where i = 1 to length(xk)=13.  It should  
>> result
>> in a 13 by 5 matrix or data frame.  Does anyone have a "quicker"  
>> solution
>> than FOR loops or apply()?
> 
> 	outer(xk,x,function(a,b){abs(a-b)})
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