[R] binary order combinations

[roger koenker]

Does ?combos in the quantreg package do what you want?


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On Sep 5, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Dimitri Liakhovitski wrote:

> Dear all!
>
> I have a vector of names
> names<-("V1", "V2", "V3",....., "V15")
>
> I could create all possible combinations of these names (of all
> lengths) using R:
>
> combos<-lapply(1:15,function(x)
> {combn(names,x)
> })
>
> I get a list with all possible combinations of elements of 'names'
> that looks like this (just the very beginning of it):
>
> [[1]] - the first element contains all combinations of 1 name
>     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10] [,11] [,12] [, 
> 13] [,14]
> [1,] "V1" "V2" "V3" "V4" "V5" "V6" "V7" "V8" "V9" "V10" "V11" "V12"  
> "V13" "V14"
>     [,15]
> [1,] "V15"
>
> [[2]] - the second element contains all possible combinations of 2  
> names
>     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9]  [,10] [,11] [,12]  
> [,13]
> [1,] "V1" "V1" "V1" "V1" "V1" "V1" "V1" "V1" "V1"  "V1"  "V1"  "V1"   
> "V1"
> [2,] "V2" "V3" "V4" "V5" "V6" "V7" "V8" "V9" "V10" "V11" "V12" "V13"  
> "V14"
> .
> .
> .
> etc.
>
> My question is: Is there any way to re-arrange all sub-elements of the
> above list (i.e., all possible combinations of names such as V1,
> V1:V3, V1:V2:V4:V5) in a binary system order. More specifically,
> according to this system:
> V1=1
> V2=2
> V3=4
> V4=8
> V5=16, etc....
>
> So, I'd like those combinations to be arranged in a vector in the
> following order:
> 1. V1 (because V1=1)
> 2. V2 (because V2=2)
> 3. V1:V2 (because V1=1 and V2=2 so that 1+2=3)
> 4. V3 (because V3=4)
> 5. V1:V3 (because V1=1 and V3=4 so that 1+4=5)
> 6. V2:V3 (because V2=2 and V3=4 so that 2+4=6)
> 7. V1:V2:V3 (because V1=1 and V2=2 and V3=4 so that 1+2+4=7)
> 8. V4 (because V4=8)
> etc.
>
> Is it at all possible?
> Or maybe there is a way to create the name combinations in such an
> order in the first place?
>
> Thank you very much!
> Dimitri Liakhovitski
>
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