[R] help with simple function

[T.D.Rudolph]

In fact x[4,2] should = log(x[5,1]/2] 
whereas x[3,2] = log(x[5,1/3]) 

i.e. The denominator in the log function equals the number of rows between
m==0 and m>0 (inclusive, hence the "+1") 

Hope this helps!... 


Charles C. Berry wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 27 May 2008, T.D.Rudolph wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> I have a matrix of frequency counts from 0-160.
>> x<-as.matrix(c(0,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1))
>>
>> I would like to apply a function creating a new column (x[,2])containing
>> values equal to:
>> a) log(x[m,1]) if x[m,1] > 0; and
>> b) for all x[m,1]= 0, log(next x[m,1] > 0 / count of preceding zero
>> values
>> +1)
>>
>> for example, x[1,2] should equal log(x[2,1]/2) = log(1/2) = -0.6931472
>> whereas x[3,2] should equal log(x[5,1]/3) = log (1/3) = -1.098612
>>
> 
> If you also intend that x[4,2] == x[3,2] in your example, then this seems 
> what you want:
> 
>> rle.x <- rle(x[,1])
>> num <- ifelse(rle.x$values == 0, c(tail(rle.x$values,-1),NA),
>> rle.x$values )
>> denom <- ifelse(rle.x$values == 0 , rle.x$lengths +1 , 1 )
>> rep(log(num/denom),rle.x$lengths)
>   [1] -0.6931472  0.0000000 -1.0986123 -1.0986123  0.0000000 -1.3862944
> -1.3862944 -1.3862944  0.0000000 -1.6094379
> [11] -1.6094379 -1.6094379 -1.6094379  0.0000000
>>
> 
> See
> 
>  	?rep
>  	?rle
>  	?tail
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
>> I will be applying this to nrow(x)=~70,000 so I would prefer to not do it
>> by
>> hand!
>> Tyler
>>
>>
>>
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> 
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