If you're able to work with the transpose of your matrix, you might consider the function 'filter()', e.g.:
> filter(diag(1:5), c(2,3), sides=1) Time Series: Start = 1 End = 5 Frequency = 1 [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] 1 NA NA NA NA NA 2 3 4 0 0 0 3 0 6 6 0 0 4 0 0 9 8 0 5 0 0 0 12 10 > I don't know if the conversion to and from a time-series class will impact the timing, but if this might serve your purposes, it's easy to do some experiments to find out. - Tony Plate Huang-Wen Chen wrote: > I'm wondering what's the best way to shift a huge matrix left or right. > My current implementation is the following: > > shiftMatrixL <- function(X, shift, padding=0) { > cbind(X[, -1:-shift], matrix(padding, dim(X)[1], shift)) > } > > X <- shiftMatrixL(X, 1)*3 + shiftMatrixL(X,2)*5... > > However, it's still slow due to heavy use of this function. > The resulting matrix will only be read once and then discarded, > so I believe the best implementation of this function is in C, > manipulating the internal data structure of this matrix. > Anyone know similar package for doing this job ? > > Huang-Wen > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.