Does this do what you want:

> x<-c(0,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1)
> y <- rle(x)
> result <- lapply(seq_along(y$lengths), function(.indx){
+     if (y$values[.indx] == 0)
log(y$values[.indx+1]/seq(y$lengths[.indx]+1, by=-1,
length=y$lengths[.indx]))
+     else rep(log(y$values[.indx]), y$lengths[.indx])
+ })
> unlist(result)
 [1] -0.6931472  0.0000000 -1.0986123 -0.6931472  0.0000000 -1.3862944
-1.0986123 -0.6931472  0.0000000
[10] -1.6094379 -1.3862944 -1.0986123 -0.6931472  0.0000000
>
>


On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:04 PM, T.D.Rudolph <prairie.picker@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> In fact x[4,2] should = log(x[5,1]/2]
> whereas x[3,2] = log(x[5,1/3])
>
> i.e. The denominator in the log function equals the number of rows between
> m==0 and m>0 (inclusive, hence the "+1")
>
> Hope this helps!...
>
>
> Charles C. Berry wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 27 May 2008, T.D.Rudolph wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> I have a matrix of frequency counts from 0-160.
> >> x<-as.matrix(c(0,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1))
> >>
> >> I would like to apply a function creating a new column (x[,2])containing
> >> values equal to:
> >> a) log(x[m,1]) if x[m,1] > 0; and
> >> b) for all x[m,1]= 0, log(next x[m,1] > 0 / count of preceding zero
> >> values
> >> +1)
> >>
> >> for example, x[1,2] should equal log(x[2,1]/2) = log(1/2) = -0.6931472
> >> whereas x[3,2] should equal log(x[5,1]/3) = log (1/3) = -1.098612
> >>
> >
> > If you also intend that x[4,2] == x[3,2] in your example, then this seems
> > what you want:
> >
> >> rle.x <- rle(x[,1])
> >> num <- ifelse(rle.x$values == 0, c(tail(rle.x$values,-1),NA),
> >> rle.x$values )
> >> denom <- ifelse(rle.x$values == 0 , rle.x$lengths +1 , 1 )
> >> rep(log(num/denom),rle.x$lengths)
> >   [1] -0.6931472  0.0000000 -1.0986123 -1.0986123  0.0000000 -1.3862944
> > -1.3862944 -1.3862944  0.0000000 -1.6094379
> > [11] -1.6094379 -1.6094379 -1.6094379  0.0000000
> >>
> >
> > See
> >
> >       ?rep
> >       ?rle
> >       ?tail
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> >
> >> I will be applying this to nrow(x)=~70,000 so I would prefer to not do
> it
> >> by
> >> hand!
> >> Tyler
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >>
> >
> > Charles C. Berry                            (858) 534-2098
> >                                              Dept of Family/Preventive
> > Medicine
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