[R] *apply function for arrays?

[Hesen Peng]

Hi,

Thank you so much for the help. apply does work for the first situation.

For the second situation, I'm currently using:

temp.a<-function(i,j){
  return(G(M[i,],N[j,]))
}
temp.v<-Vectorize(temp.a)
result<-outer(1:nrow(M),1:nrow(N),FUN=temp.v)

And I wonder whether there are some other ways to do this.

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Patrick Burns <pburns at pburns.seanet.com> wrote:
> You want to use the 'apply' function.  S Poetry
> has a chapter on higher dimensional arrays that
> may be of use to you.
>
> I don't see a good approach for your second
> situation other than a double for loop.  Unless
> G is linear, I think all other solutions will be
> equivalent to a double for loop, though the
> loops may be hidden.
>
>
> Patrick Burns
> patrick at burns-stat.com
> +44 (0)20 8525 0696
> http://www.burns-stat.com
> (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User")
>
> Hesen Peng wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've recently been writing functions which may deal with very large
>> arrays. And I hope to use *apply functions in the program so that the
>> code may look nicer and the performance may be better in the following
>> two situations.
>>
>> The first situation is:
>>
>> I'm having an array A with dim(A)==c(m,n,p). And I want to apply a
>> function F to a group of elements in A like:
>>
>> 1) F is applied to every group of elements like A[i,j,] for all i and j.
>> or
>> 2) F is applied to every group of elements like A[i,,] for all i, or
>> A[,j,] for all j.
>>
>> The result is then expected to be a m*n-dimensional matrix
>>
>> I'm currently using for loops to do this but I guess there maybe some
>> *apply functions for arrays which may accomplish this task.
>>
>> The second situation is:
>>
>> I'm having two matrix M and N and a function G, which is a function of
>> two arrays. I want to form a matrix R with dim(R)==c(nrow(M),nrow(N)),
>> and R[i,j] <- G(M[i,], N[j,]). And I wonder whether I may use some
>> functions like outer to the matrix.
>>
>> Thank you very much and have a nice weekend.
>>
>>
>



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