Duh!!
The simplest, probably fastest and most elegant solution of
course is
order(x, -y)
...... if only I would have biked home earlier, today,...
I'm sure I would have save much of my time....
Martin
>>>>> "MM" == Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:41:51 +0200 writes:
MM> I've found the need to compute a version of order(x,y)
MM> where I want the sort order for *increasing* x and
MM> *decresing* y ...
MM> something we could imagine could be provided in the
MM> future as
MM> order(x,y, decreasing = c(FALSE, TRUE))
MM> i.e., using a 'vectorized' decreasing argument. {No,
MM> I'm not volunteering right now!}
MM> I've found the following R-level solution and like to
MM> quiz you for more elegant / faster solutions {but I am
MM> not really interested in replacing order(x) by
MM> sort.list(x, method="quick") and similar things; one
MM> thing to consider *is* using an 'na.last = . '
MM> correctly, and I haven't had the need for that and so
MM> not bothered to "do it"}
MM> ## Here's a script with my version and a small example
MM> ## (if you want speed comparisons, use larger examples)
MM> :
MM> orderXuYd <- function(x,y) { ## Purpose: order(x,y): x
MM> up, y down ##
MM> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
MM> ## Arguments: x,y: vectors of the same length ##
MM> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
MM> ## Author: Martin Maechler, Date: 21 Aug 2008
MM> ix <- order(x) xx <- x[ix] iy <- tapply(y[ix], xx,
MM> order, decreasing = TRUE) ## Note: 'SIMPLIFY',
MM> 'USE.NAMES', 'use.names' are just for efficiency:
MM> unlist(mapply(`[`, split(ix,xx), iy, SIMPLIFY = FALSE,
MM> USE.NAMES = FALSE), use.names = FALSE) }
MM> x <- c(1, 1, 2, 0, 0, 2, 1, 2, 2, 0, 2) y <- c(27, 21,
MM> 45, 11, 13, 58, 35, 74, 95, 16, 122) ii <-
MM> orderXuYd(x,y) ## yes, this is it : cbind(ii=ii,
MM> x=x[ii],y=y[ii])
MM> ------------------
MM> Yes, the real reason this goes to R-devel is that it
MM> might be neat to provide this (well, its generalization)
MM> via an enhanced order() function.
MM> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
MM> PS: I will be basically offline all day tomorrow, so
MM> don't expect my reactions to your ideas quickly
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