[R] Matrix transformation problem
Eik Vettorazzi
E.Vettorazzi at uke.uni-hamburg.de
Wed Jun 11 11:29:55 CEST 2008
you may try a matrix multiplication, which has a very high performance in R
x%*%1:ncol(x)
hth.
stefan.petersson at inizio.se schrieb:
> ng,
>
> I have a matrix (x) with binary content. Each row of the matrix holds exactly one 1, and the rest of the row is zeros. The thing is that I need to 'collapse' the matrix to one column where each row holds the original column index of the 1's (y). Sometimes, the matrix is quite large, so I have a perfomance problem.
>
> x <- matrix(c(1,0,0, 0,0,1, 0,1,0, 0,0,1, 0,1,0, 1,0,0),ncol=3,byrow=T)
> x
> [,1] [,2] [,3]
> [1,] 1 0 0
> [2,] 0 0 1
> [3,] 0 1 0
> [4,] 0 0 1
> [5,] 0 1 0
> [6,] 1 0 0
>
> In the matrix above, on the first row, the 1 is in column 1, hence '1' on the first row in the matrix below. On the second row in the matrix above, the 1 is in column 3, hence the '3' on the second row in the matrix below. And so on...
>
> y
> [,1]
> [1,] 1
> [2,] 3
> [3,] 2
> [4,] 3
> [5,] 2
> [6,] 1
>
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