[R] non-consing count

Sam Steingold sds at gnu.org
Fri Jan 4 16:30:49 CET 2013


Hi,
to count vector elements with some property, the standard idiom seems to
be length(which):
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
x <- c(1,1,0,0,0)
count.0 <- length(which(x == 0))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
however, this approach allocates and discards 2 vectors: a logical
vector of length=length(x) and an integer vector in which.
is there a cheaper alternative?
Thanks!

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