[R] searching for specific row in matrix

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

try this:

match.pat <- function (mat, target, nomatch = -1) {
    f1 <- do.call("paste", c(as.data.frame(mat), sep = "\r"))
    f2 <- paste(target, collapse = "\r")
    ind <- f1 %in% f2
    if (any(ind)) which(ind)[1] else nomatch
}
##################
set.seed(1234)
mat <- matrix(sample(0:1, 50, TRUE), 10, 5)

targ1 <- mat[2, ]
match.pat(mat, targ1)

targ2 <- rep(0, 5)
match.pat(mat, targ2)


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Esmail Bonakdarian" <esmail.js at gmail.com>
To: <r-help at r-project.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 1:58 PM
Subject: [R] searching for specific row in matrix


> Hi,
>
> I have matrix of bits and a target vector. Is there an
> efficient way to search the rows of the matrix for the target?
> I am interested in the first row index where target is found.
>
> Example:
>
> > source("lookup.R")
>       [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
>  [1,]    1    0    1    1    0
>  [2,]    1    1    0    1    0
>  [3,]    0    0    1    0    0
>  [4,]    1    0    0    1    1
>  [5,]    1    0    1    1    1
>  [6,]    1    1    0    0    1
>  [7,]    1    0    0    1    1
>  [8,]    0    0    1    1    1
>  [9,]    0    1    1    0    1
> [10,]    0    0    0    1    0
>
> target:  1 1 0 1 1
>
> Should return -1 (or some other indicator) since the
> target was not found in any of the rows.
>
>
>
> > source("lookup.R")
>       [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
>  [1,]    0    0    1    1    0
>  [2,]    1    0    0    0    0
>  [3,]    1    0    0    0    0
>  [4,]    1    1    0    0    0
>  [5,]    1    1    1    0    0
>  [6,]    0    0    1    1    0
>  [7,]    0    1    1    1    0
>  [8,]    0    0    1    1    0
>  [9,]    1    1    0    1    1
> [10,]    1    0    1    0    0
>
> target:  1 1 0 1 1
>
> Should return 9 since the target was  found in row 9
>
>
> If the target is found, it is no longer necessary to keep
> searching the rest of the matrix (which may be quite large)
>
> The data/size etc may change of course, but target will
> always have the same number of "columns" as the matrix.
>
> I tried variations of "which", and a for loop
> comparing pop[i,] to target without much success, nor
> did google yield any results. I am hoping someone here
> can provide a suggestion.
>
> Thanks,
>
> EB
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> # Here is the code that generates the above data
>
> create_bin_string <- function(len)
> {
>   sample(0:1, len, replace=T)
> }
>
> ROWS = 10
> COLS =  5
> pop = matrix(create_bin_string(ROWS*COLS), ROWS, COLS, byrow=T)
>
>
>
> target=c(1, 1, 0, 1, 1)
>
> # my population
> print(pop)
>
> # I am looking for the index of this in pop
> # if present (else -1?)
> cat("\ntarget: ", target, "\n")
>
>
>
> ##
> ## this is NOT working
> ## plus it would continue to search
> ## after it found the target
> ##
> for(i in ROWS)
>    if (pop[i,] == target)
>       cat("\nfound in row: ", i, "\n\n")
>
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