> I'm trying to avoid using nested loops in the following code but I'm
> not sure how to proceed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> With regards,Phil
> X = matrix(rnorm(100), 10, 10)
> result = 0
> for(m in 1:nrow(X)){
> for(n in 1:ncol(X)){
> if(X[m,n] != 0){
> result = result + (X[m,n] / (1 + abs(m - n)))
> }
> }
> }
First, you don't need the 'if', do you? If X[m,n]==0 (rare for a floating
point number) (X[m,n] / (1 + abs(m - n)) will be zero anyway.
Then, depending on the matrix size, you can probably do the whole thing using
an index array.
Something like:
idx <- as.matrix( expand.grid(1:nrow(X), 1:ncol(X)) )
result <- sum( X[idx] / apply(idx,1, function(x) 1+abs(diff(x))) )
#... which seemed to do the identically the same thing as your loop when I
tried it.
S Ellison
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