[R] own function: computing time

[Tonja Krueger]

   That's perfect, thanks a lot!
   Tonja
   Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. Oktober 2012 um 21:37 Uhr
   Von: "William Dunlap" <wdunlap at tibco.com>
   An: "tonja.krueger at web.de" <tonja.krueger at web.de>, "r-help at r-project.org"
   <r-help at r-project.org>
   Betreff: RE: [R] own function: computing time
   Your original method would be the following function
   f <- function (x, y)
   {
   xy <- cbind(x, y)
   outside <- function(z) {
   !any(x > z[1] & y > z[2])
   }
   j <- apply(xy, 1, outside)
   which(j)
   }
   and the following one quickly computes the same thing as the above
   as long as there are no repeated points (if there are repeated
   points it chooses one of them).
   f1 <- function (x, y)
   {
   o <- order(x, decreasing = TRUE)
   yo <- y[o]
   j <- logical(length(y))
   j[o] <- yo == cummax(yo)
   which(j)
   }
   Think of the problem as finding the "ladder points" (Feller's term)
   of a sequence of points, the places where the sequence reaches
   a new high point.
   Bill Dunlap
   Spotfire, TIBCO Software
   wdunlap tibco.com
   > -----Original Message-----
   > From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
   On Behalf
   > Of William Dunlap
   > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 9:52 AM
   > To: tonja.krueger at web.de; r-help at r-project.org
   > Subject: Re: [R] own function: computing time
   >
   > No, the desired points are not a subset of the convex hull.
   > E.g., x=c(0,1:5), y=c(0,1/(1:5)).
   >
   > Bill Dunlap
   > Spotfire, TIBCO Software
   > wdunlap tibco.com
   >
   >
   > > -----Original Message-----
   > > From: William Dunlap
   > > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 9:46 AM
   > > To: 'tonja.krueger at web.de'; r-help at r-project.org
   > > Subject: RE: [R] own function: computing time
   > >
   > > Are the points you are looking for (those data points with no other data
   > > points above or to the right of them) a subset of the convex hull of the
   > > data points? If so, chull(x,y) can quickly give you the points on the
   convex
   > > hull (typically a fairly small number) and you can look through them for
   > > the ones you want.
   > >
   > > Bill Dunlap
   > > Spotfire, TIBCO Software
   > > wdunlap tibco.com
   > >
   > >
   > > > -----Original Message-----
   > > > From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
   [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
   > Behalf
   > > > Of tonja.krueger at web.de
   > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 3:16 AM
   > > > To: r-help at r-project.org
   > > > Subject: [R] own function: computing time
   > > >
   > > > Hi all,
   > > >
   > > > I wrote a function that actually does what I want it to do, but it
   tends to be very slow
   > > for
   > > > large amount of data. On my computer it takes 5.37 seconds for 16000
   data points
   > and
   > > > 21.95 seconds for 32000 data points. As my real data consists of
   18000000 data
   > points
   > > it
   > > > would take ages to use the function as it is now.
   > > > Could someone help me to speed up the calculation?
   > > >
   > > > Thank you, Tonja
   > > >
   > > > system.time({
   > > > x <- runif(32000)
   > > > y <- runif(32000)
   > > >
   > > > xy <- cbind(x,y)
   > > >
   > > > outer <- function(z){
   > > > !any(x > z[1] & y > z[2])}
   > > > j <- apply(xy,1, outer)
   > > >
   > > > plot(x,y)
   > > > points(x[j],y[j],col="green")
   > > >
   > > > })
   > > >
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