[R] non-consing count

[jim holtman]

What is the concern if it works?  you can also do

sum(x==0)

Is performance a concern?  How often are you going to do it and what
other parts of your script also take longer?  Why are you concerned
about allocating/discarding two vectors?

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Sam Steingold <sds at gnu.org> wrote:
> 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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Jim Holtman
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