On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 16:10 -0500, Christos Hatzis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A function calculates the absolute difference between the two largest values
> of each row of a matrix, as shown in the following example code:
>
> cx <- matrix(runif(15),5)
> cy <- t( apply(cx, 1, order, decreasing=TRUE) )
>
> cz <- rep(0, nrow(cx))
> for( i in 1:nrow(cx) ) cz[i] <- abs(diff(cx[i, cy[i,1:2]]))
>
> Anybody has any ideas on how the last loop can be vectorized?
>
> Thanks.
How about this:
> mat <- matrix(sample(1:50, 12), ncol = 4)
> mat
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
[1,] 39 1 22 11
[2,] 34 28 13 48
[3,] 25 40 38 3
> apply(mat, 1, function(x) abs(diff(sort(x, decreasing = TRUE)[1:2])))
[1] 17 14 2
Or
> apply(mat, 1, function(x) diff(sort(x)[3:4]))
[1] 17 14 2
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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