Dear R users,
I want to apply a function that takes two vectors as input to all pairs
(combinations (nrow(X), 2))of matrix rows in a matrix.
I know that ideally, one should avoid loops in R, but after reading the docs for
do.call, apply, etc, I still don't know how to write the nested loop in a
vectorized way.
Example data:
x = matrix(rnorm(1000), 100, 100)
zeros = runif(90)
x[]
# this is actually a very large sparse matrix, but it doesn't matter for the
# example
library(Matrix)
x = as(dat,"CsparseMatrix")
# cosine function
cosine = function (x, y){
if (is.vector(x) && is.vector(y)) {
return(crossprod(x, y)/sqrt(crossprod(x) * crossprod(y)))
} else {stop("cosine: argument mismatch. Two vectors needed as input.")}
}
# The loop-based solution I have is:
if (is(x, "Matrix") ) {
cos = array(NA, c(ncol(x), ncol(x))) # preallocate
memory
for (i in 2:ncol(x)) {
for (j in 1:(i - 1)) {
cos[i, j] = cosine(x[, i], x[, j])
}
}
}
This solution seems inneficient. Is there an easy way of achieving this with a
clever do.call + apply combination?
--
Thanks in advance,
-Jose
--
Jose Quesada, PhD
Research fellow, Psychology Dept.
Sussex University, Brighton, UK
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~jquesada
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