[Rd] HOW TO AVOID LOOPS

[Dan Davison]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 01:30:13PM -0400, Vincent Goulet wrote:
> Le sam. 12 avr. à 12:47, carlos martinez a écrit :
> >> Looking for a simple, effective a minimum execution time solution.
> >>
> >> For a vector as:
> >>
> >> c(0,0,1,0,1,1,1,0,0,1,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,1,1,1)
> >>
> > To transform it to the following vector without using any loops:
> >
> >> (0,0,1,0,1,2,3,0,0,1,2,0,1,0,1,2,3,4,5,6)
> >>
> > Appreciate any suggetions.
> 
> This does it -- but it is admittedly ugly:
> 
>  > x <- c(0,0,1,0,1,1,1,0,0,1,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,1,1,1)
>  > ind <- which(x == 0)
>  > unlist(lapply(mapply(seq, ind, c(tail(ind, -1) - 1, length(x))),  
> function(y) cumsum(x[y])))
>   [1] 0 0 1 0 1 2 3 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
> 
> (The mapply() part is used to create the indexes of each sequence in x  
> starting with a 0. The rest is then straightforward.)


Here's my effort. Maybe a bit easier to digest? Only one *apply so probably more efficient.

function(x=c(0,0,1,0,1,1,1,0,0,1,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,1,1,1)) {
    d <- diff(c(0,x,0))
    starts <- which(d == 1)
    ends <- which(d == -1)
    x[x == 1] <- unlist(lapply(ends - starts, function(n) 1:n))
    x
}

Dan


> 
> HTH
> 
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>    École d'actuariat
>    Université Laval, Québec
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