[R] Help with applying a function to all possible 2x2 submatrices

[Michael Friendly]

On 10/22/2012 1:10 PM, CMB123 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working with a large data set (on the order of 300X300) and trying to
> apply a function which compares the elements of all possible 2x2
> submatrices. There are rc(r-1)(c-1) such submatrices, so obviously the naive
> method of looping through the rows and columns is computationally unfeasible
> for my data set:
>
>    for(i in 1:(nrow(data)-1)) {
>      for(j in (i+1):nrow(data)) {
>        for (m in 1:(ncol(data)-1)) {
>          for (n in (m+1):ncol(data)) {
>
> I have tried using the outer and apply functions to vectorize the task, but
> I can't seem to figure out the best method (or any method, for that matter)
> to help with what I'm trying to do.
>

See the function vcdExtra::loddsratio for something similar


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