[R] choosing best 'match' for given factor

[Bert Gunter]

Folks:

I think the following may be somewhat faster, as it avoids sorting:

bmat <- function(mx,vec)
{
  nm <- colnames(mx)
  ivec <- match(vec,nm)
  sapply(ivec,function(k){
   if(k==1)NA  else {
    lookat <- setdiff(seq_len(k-1),ivec) ## only those to left and not
in search vector ##
    nm[lookat[which.max(mx[lookat,k] )]]
   }
  }
 )
}

-- Bert

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Nick Sabbe <nick.sabbe at ugent.be> wrote:
>
> Hi Murali.
> I haven't compared, but this is what I would do:
>
> bestMatch<-function(searchVector, matchMat)
> {
>        searchRow<-unique(sort(match(searchVector, colnames(matchMat)))) #if
> you're sure, you could drop unique
>        cat("Original row indices:")
>        print(searchRow)
>        matchMat<-matchMat[, -searchRow, drop=FALSE] #avoid duplicates
> altogether
>        cat("Corrected Matrix:\n")
>        print(matchMat)
>        correctedRows<-searchRow - seq_along(searchRow) + 1 #works because
> of the sort above
>        cat("Corrected row indices:")
>        print(correctedRows)
>        sapply(correctedRows, function(cr){
>                        lookWhere<-matchMat[cr, seq(cr-1)]
>                        cat("Will now look into:\n")
>                        print(lookWhere)
>                        cc<-which.max(lookWhere)
>                        cat("Max at position", cc, "\n")
>                        colnames(matchMat)[cc]
>                })
> }
> I don't think there's that much difference. Depending on specific sizes, it
> may be more or less costly to first shrink the search matrix like I do. And
> similarly depending, I may be better still if you remove the rows that
> you're not interested in as well (some more but similar index trickery
> required then.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> Nick Sabbe
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
> Behalf Of Murali.Menon at avivainvestors.com
> Sent: donderdag 31 maart 2011 16:46
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] choosing best 'match' for given factor
>
> Folks,
>
> I have a 'matching' matrix between variables A, X, L, O:
>
> > a <- structure(c(1, 0.41, 0.58, 0.75, 0.41, 1, 0.6, 0.86, 0.58,
> 0.6, 1, 0.83, 0.75, 0.86, 0.83, 1), .Dim = c(4L, 4L), .Dimnames = list(
>    c("A", "X", "L", "O"), c("A", "X", "L", "O")))
>
> > a
>      A     X     L     O
> A  1.00  0.41  0.58  0.75
> X  0.41  1.00  0.60  0.86
> L  0.58  0.75  1.00  0.83
> O  0.60  0.86  0.83  1.00
>
> And I have a search vector of variables
>
> > v <- c("X", "O")
>
> I want to write a function bestMatch(searchvector, matchMat) such that for
> each variable in searchvector, I get the variable that it has the highest
> match to - but searching only among variables to the left of it in the
> 'matching' matrix, and not matching with any variable in searchvector
> itself.
>
> So in the above example, although "X" has the highest match (0.86) with "O",
> I can't choose "O" as it's to the right of X (and also because "O" is in the
> searchvector v already); I'll have to choose "A".
>
> For "O", I will choose "L", the variable it's best matched with - as it
> can't match "X" already in the search vector.
>
> My function bestMatch(v, a) will then return c("A", "L")
>
> My matrix a is quite large, and I have a long list of search vectors v, so I
> need an efficient method.
>
> I wrote this:
>
> bestMatch <- function(searchvector,  matchMat) {
>        sapply(searchvector, function(cc) {
>                             y <- matchMat[!(rownames(matchMat) %in%
> searchvector) & (index(rownames(matchMat)) < match(cc, rownames(matchMat))),
> cc, drop = FALSE];
>                             rownames(y)[which.max(y)]
>        })
> }
>
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Murali
>
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Bert Gunter
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