On Aug 7, 2012, at 11:26 PM, Petr Savicky wrote:

On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 06:03:19AM +0000, Ingo Reinhold wrote:
Hi Jeff, David,

what I'm trying to do is speed the currently used nest for loop

a<-matrix(c(1:6),ncol=3)
b<-c(1,2,3,4)

result<-matrix(rep(0, times=dim(a)[1]*length(b)),nrow=dim(a)[1])
for(ii in 1:dim(a)[1]){
 for(jj in 1:length(b)){
   result[ii,jj]<-a[ii,1]+a[ii,3]/b[jj]
     }
}

giving the result

    [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]    1    3    5
[2,]    2    4    6

That is not what result equals (as Petr illustrates.)


Hi.

The printed matrix is "a". The above code yields on my computer

      [,1] [,2]     [,3] [,4]
 [1,]    6  3.5 2.666667 2.25
 [2,]    8  5.0 4.000000 3.50

Try the following

 out <- a[, 1] + a[, 3] %o% (1/b)

 max(abs(out - result))

 [1] 4.440892e-16

Hope this helps.

It's also the case that the printed result is just the transpose of what I earlier offered as a possible implementation of the OP's pseudo- code.:

> identical( t( apply(a, 1, function(x) { x[1] + x[3]/ b } ) ), result)
[1] TRUE

--

David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA

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