[R] Reversing one dimension of an array, in a generalized case

Ismail SEZEN sezenismail at gmail.com
Thu Jun 1 21:40:01 CEST 2017


And my 2 cents,

Rev <- function(x, margin) {
    newdim <- rep("", length(dim(x)))
    newdim[margin] <- paste(dim(x), ":1", sep = "")[margin]
    z <- eval(parse(text = gettextf("x[%s,drop = F]", paste(newdim, sep = "",
                                                            collapse = ","))))
    class(z) <- oldClass(x)
    return(z)
}

z <- array(1:24,dim=2:4)
dim(f(z, 3)) # 2 3 4
dim(f2(z, 3)) # 3 4 2
dim(Rev(z, 3)) # 2 3 4
dim(revdim(z,3)) # 2 3 4

microbenchmark::microbenchmark(f(z, 3), Rev(z, 3), revdim(z,3), f2(z,3))

Unit: microseconds
         expr     min       lq      mean   median       uq     max neval
      f(z, 3)   6.356   7.6090   9.74268   9.3285  11.2325  35.571   100
    Rev(z, 3) 161.079 166.9660 175.26906 172.1450 176.8130 273.078   100
 revdim(z, 3)   5.011   6.1300   7.88565   7.5695   9.0500  21.301   100
     f2(z, 3)  68.454  71.6815  82.85703  81.6700  87.9285 126.496   100

and strangely,

all.equal(f(z, 3), Rev(z, 3), revdim(z,3), f2(z,3))
[1] TRUE

?

> On 1 Jun 2017, at 22:00, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> ??
> 
>> z <- array(1:24,dim=2:4)
>> all.equal(f(z,3),f2(z,3))
> 
> [1] "Attributes: < Component “dim”: Mean relative difference: 0.4444444 >"
> [2] "Mean relative difference: 0.6109091"
> 
> In fact,
> 
>> dim(f(z,3))
> [1] 2 3 4
> 
>> dim(f2(z,3))
> [1] 3 4 2
> 
> Have I made some sort of stupid error here? Or have I misunderstood
> what was wanted?
> 
> Cheers,
> Bert
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Bert Gunter
> 
> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
> and sticking things into it."
> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:34 AM, David L Carlson <dcarlson at tamu.edu> wrote:
>> Here is an alternative approach using apply(). Note that with apply() you are reversing rows or columns not indices of rows or columns so apply(junk, 2, rev) reverses the values in each column not the column indices. We actually need to use rev() on everything but the index we are interested in reversing:
>> 
>> f2 <- function(a, wh) {
>>    dims <- seq_len(length(dim(a)))
>>    dims <- setdiff(dims, wh)
>>    apply(apply(a, dims, rev), dims, t)
>> }
>> 
>> # Your example
>> j1 <- junk[ , rev(1:10), ]
>> j2 <- f2(junk, 2)
>> all.equal(j1, j2)
>> # [1] TRUE
>> 
>> # Bert's example
>> z1 <- f(z, 2)
>> z2 <- f2(z, 2)
>> all.equal(z1, z2)
>> # [1] TRUE
>> 
>> -------------------------------------
>> David L Carlson
>> Department of Anthropology
>> Texas A&M University
>> College Station, TX 77840-4352
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Bert Gunter
>> Sent: Thursday, June 1, 2017 12:46 PM
>> To: Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal <roy.mendelssohn at noaa.gov>
>> Cc: R-help <r-help at r-project.org>
>> Subject: Re: [R] Reversing one dimension of an array, in a generalized case
>> 
>> How about this:
>> 
>> f <- function(a,wh){ ## a is the array; wh is the index to be reversed
>>   l<- lapply(dim(a),seq_len)
>>   l[[wh]]<- rev(l[[wh]])
>>   do.call(`[`,c(list(a),l))
>> }
>> 
>> ## test
>> z <- array(1:120,dim=2:5)
>> 
>> ##  I omit the printouts
>> 
>> f(z,2)
>> 
>> f(z,3)
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Bert
>> 
>> Bert Gunter
>> 
>> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
>> and sticking things into it."
>> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal
>> <roy.mendelssohn at noaa.gov> wrote:
>>> Hi All:
>>> 
>>> I have been looking for an elegant way to do the following,  but haven't found it,  I have never had a good understanding of any of the "apply" functions.
>>> 
>>> A simplified idea is I have an array, say:
>>> 
>>> junk(5, 10, 3)
>>> 
>>> where  (5, 10, 3) give the dimension sizes, and I want to reverse the second dimension, so I could do:
>>> 
>>> junk1 <- junk[, rev(seq_len(10), ]
>>> 
>>> but what I am after is a general function that will do that where the array could be two, three or four dimensions,  and I pass to the function which dimension I want to reverse, that is the function can not assume the number of dimensions of the array nor which dimension to reverse.
>>> 
>>> For example,  if i try:
>>> 
>>> junk1 <- apply(junk, 2, rev)
>>> 
>>> junk1 comes out as two-dimensional,  not three-dimensional.
>>> 
>>> It is probably something obvious but I am not getting it.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for any help.
>>> 
>>> -Roy
>>> 
>>> 
>>> **********************
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>>> **********************
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