On Dec 7, 2012, at 7:14 AM, Doran, Harold wrote:

David et al

Thanks, I should have made the post more complete. I routinely use apply functions, but often avoid mapply() as I find it so non- intuitive. In this instance, I think the situation demands I change that position, though.

Reproducible code for the current implementation of the function is

B <- c(0,1)
sem1 = runif(10, 1, 2)
x <- rnorm(10)
X <- cbind(1, x)
eta <- numeric(10)

for(j in 1:nrow(X)){
fun <- function(u) 1/ (1 + exp(- (B[1] + B[2] * (x[j] + u)))) * dnorm(u, 0, sem1[j])
        eta[j] <- integrate(fun, -Inf, Inf)$value
}

I can't get my head around how mapply() would work here. It accepts as its first argument a function. But, in my case I have two functions: the user defined integrand, fun(), an then of course calling the R function integrate().

I was thinking maybe along these lines, but this is obviously wrong.

mapply(integrate(function(u) 1/ (1 + exp(- (B[1] + B[2] * (x + u)))) * dnorm(u, 0, sem1), -Inf, Inf)$value, MoreArgs = list(B, x, sem1))


I had been thinking (before you presented the data case and allowed the problem to be seen more fully) that X[ n, ] was being passed to that expression. It's not. You are using the index of one object to pass positions of a vector, so there is really only one value. Using mapply would reduce to using sapply as Carlson illustrated.

--
David


-----Original Message-----
From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsem...@comcast.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 1:59 PM
To: Doran, Harold
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Vectorizing integrate()


On Dec 6, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Doran, Harold wrote:

I have written a program to solve a particular logistic regression problem
using IRLS. In one step, I need to integrate something out of the linear predictor. The way I'm doing it now is within a loop and it is as you would
expect slow to process, especially inside an iterative algorithm.

I'm hoping there is a way this can be vectorized, but I have not found
it so far. The portion of code I'd like to vectorize is this

for(j in 1:nrow(X)){
fun <- function(u) 1/ (1 + exp(- (B[1] + B[2] * (x[j] + u)))) * dnorm(u, 0,
sd[j])
              eta[j] <- integrate(fun, -Inf, Inf)$value }


The Vectorize function is just a wrapper to mapply. If yoou are able to get that code to execute properly for your un-posted test cases, then why not
use mapply?


Here X is an n x p model matrix for the fixed effects, B is a vector with the
estimates of the fixed effects at iteration t, x is a predictor variable in the jth
row of X, and sd is a variable corresponding to x[j].

Is there a way this can be done without looping over the rows of X?

Thanks,
Harold

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