Thats cumbersome, Arun. > sum(mat1[,1] < 12 & mat1[,2] > 12) [1] 17
will do the job and even faster: > system.time(replicate(10000, sum(mat1[,1] < 12 & mat1[,2] > 12))) # user system elapsed # 0.067 0.001 0.078 HTH, Jorge.- On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:06 AM, arun <> wrote: > Hi, > Try this: > set.seed(25) > mat1<- > matrix(cbind(sample(1:15,20,replace=TRUE),sample(16:30,20,replace=TRUE)),ncol=2) > nrow(mat1[sapply(seq_len(nrow(mat1)),function(i) > any(seq(mat1[i,1],mat1[i,2])==12)),]) > #[1] 17 > > > set.seed(25) > mat2<- > matrix(cbind(sample(1:15,1e5,replace=TRUE),sample(16:30,1e5,replace=TRUE)),ncol=2) > > system.time(res<-nrow(mat2[sapply(seq_len(nrow(mat2)),function(i) > any(seq(mat2[i,1],mat2[i,2])==12)),])) > # user system elapsed > # 1.552 0.000 1.549 > res > #[1] 80070 > head(mat2[sapply(seq_len(nrow(mat2)),function(i) > any(seq(mat2[i,1],mat2[i,2])==12)),]) > # [,1] [,2] > #[1,] 7 29 > #[2,] 11 30 > #[3,] 3 30 > #[4,] 2 26 > #[5,] 10 22 > #[6,] 6 22 > A.K. > > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Jim Silverton <> > To: r-help@r-project.org > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 9:03 AM > Subject: Re: [R] Counting confidence intervals > > Hi, > I have a 2 x 10000 matrix of confidence intervals. The first column is the > lower and the next column is the upper. I want to cont how many times a > number say 12 lies in the interval. Can anyone assist? > > -- > Thanks, > Jim. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.