Le 29 déc. 2013 à 12:50, Asis Hallab <asis.hal...@gmail.com> a écrit :

> Dear Rcpp experst,
> 
> I hope everyone has had a pleasant Xmas.
> 
> I am just wondering what would be the recommended and most efficient way to 
> check, if a Rcpp Vector contains a given element?
> 
> If I am not mistaken the C++ standard approach for very large std::vectors 
> would be to first sort them and then perform a binary search:
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/571394/how-to-find-an-item-in-a-stdvector

I believe you are mistaken. sorting is an expensive O( N log(N) ) operation. 

I’d use something like std::find (or std::any_of if you use C++11). Those are 
O(N)
Otherwise, you might like Rcpp::any or Rcpp::any_of

Romain

> What would be the Rcpp solution for the same task on a Rcpp vector? 
> Should I convert my Rcpp Vector to a std::vector and do the above, as 
> explained on the stackoverflow blog?
> 
> Cheers and a happy new year!
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