[R] nested if/else very slow, more efficient ways?

Stefano Calza calza at med.unibs.it
Tue Oct 24 15:33:56 CEST 2006


If I get it right (data are not well aligned!) these are values in Class column. Right?

Than Class = as.numeric(factor(Class))

should work

Stefano


On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:20:08AM -0500, Kim Milferstedt wrote:
<Kim>Hi Alex,
<Kim>
<Kim>find below a sample of the input and the desired output of my data. 
<Kim>5a ... 5e are indeed the only possible values for the column in 
<Kim>question. I would like to replace 5a --> 1, 55b --> 2, ... 5e --> 5.
<Kim>
<Kim>Kim
<Kim>
<Kim>## input ###
<Kim>
<Kim>Image_ID                        Class   Max     1       2       3 
<Kim>   4       5       exp
<Kim>060901_1545_17_1_10.tif 5c      0.82329 0.32734 0.12593 0.50405 
<Kim>0.03987 0.00282 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_01_1_01.tif 5a      0.65336 0.59857 0.10341 0.25193 
<Kim>0.04384 0.00225 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_01_1_02.tif 5c      0.57736 0.22884 0.08554 0.65148 
<Kim>0.03091 0.00323 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_01_1_03.tif 5a      0.28857 0.83517 0.02118 0.12374 
<Kim>0.018   0.00191 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_01_1_04.tif 5b      0.58386 0.12772 0.60949 0.19336 
<Kim>0.06501 0.00442 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_01_1_05.tif 5c      0.83419 0.3594  0.08062 
<Kim>0.5252  0.03211 0.00267 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_01_1_06.tif 5c      0.61535 0.27652 0.04082 0.66117 
<Kim>0.01933 0.00217 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_01_1_07.tif 5c      0.22709 0.0969  0.02196 0.86981 
<Kim>0.00985 0.00149 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_01_1_08.tif 5c      0.24596 0.10647 0.02151 0.86051 
<Kim>0.01    0.00151 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_01_1_09.tif 5a      0.92945 0.48802 0.04582 0.41747 
<Kim>0.03852 0.01017 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_01_1_10.tif 5a      0.49169 0.71852 0.03417 
<Kim>0.2102  0.03203 0.00508 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_06_1_01.tif 5b      0.1927  0.05284 0.86286 0.02789 
<Kim>0.05556 0.00085 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_06_1_02.tif 5a      0.12993 0.91879 0.01481 0.04872 
<Kim>0.01643 0.00125 1.7
<Kim>
<Kim>## output ###
<Kim>
<Kim>Image_ID                        Class   Max     1       2       3 
<Kim>   4       5       exp
<Kim>060901_1545_17_1_10.tif 3       0.82329 0.32734 0.12593 0.50405 
<Kim>0.03987 0.00282 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_01_1_01.tif 1       0.65336 0.59857 0.10341 0.25193 
<Kim>0.04384 0.00225 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_01_1_02.tif 3       0.57736 0.22884 0.08554 0.65148 
<Kim>0.03091 0.00323 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_01_1_03.tif 1       0.28857 0.83517 0.02118 0.12374 
<Kim>0.018   0.00191 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_01_1_04.tif 2       0.58386 0.12772 0.60949 0.19336 
<Kim>0.06501 0.00442 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_01_1_05.tif 3       0.83419 0.3594  0.08062 
<Kim>0.5252  0.03211 0.00267 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_01_1_06.tif 3       0.61535 0.27652 0.04082 0.66117 
<Kim>0.01933 0.00217 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_01_1_07.tif 3       0.22709 0.0969  0.02196 0.86981 
<Kim>0.00985 0.00149 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_01_1_08.tif 3       0.24596 0.10647 0.02151 0.86051 
<Kim>0.01    0.00151 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_01_1_09.tif 1       0.92945 0.48802 0.04582 0.41747 
<Kim>0.03852 0.01017 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_01_1_10.tif 1       0.49169 0.71852 0.03417 
<Kim>0.2102  0.03203 0.00508 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_06_1_01.tif 2       0.1927  0.05284 0.86286 0.02789 
<Kim>0.05556 0.00085 1.7
<Kim>060902_1570_06_1_02.tif 1       0.12993 0.91879 0.01481 0.04872 
<Kim>0.01643 0.00125 1.7
<Kim>
<Kim>
<Kim>At 17:23 06/10/23, you wrote:
<Kim>>There are a number of ways this might be approached.
<Kim>>
<Kim>>Can you please give a sample of your data, and your desired output?
<Kim>>
<Kim>>Are "5a" ... "5e" the only values that appear in that column, or are
<Kim>>there other values, "4e" for instance, that should stay the same
<Kim>>during your conversion?
<Kim>>
<Kim>>Do you wish to use the numbers 1 to 5 in the processed column in
<Kim>>arithmetic processing, or are they just an enumeration of possible
<Kim>>values?
<Kim>>
<Kim>>While you think about it, I direct your attention to the functions:
<Kim>>
<Kim>>sub
<Kim>>factor
<Kim>>
<Kim>>-Alex
<Kim>>
<Kim>>On 23 Oct 2006, at 23:03, Kim Milferstedt wrote:
<Kim>>
<Kim>>>Hello,
<Kim>>>
<Kim>>>in the data.frame "resultsfuzzy" I would like to replace the
<Kim>>>characters in the second column ("5a", "5b", ... "5e") with numbers
<Kim>>>from 1 to 5. The data.frame has 39150 entries. I seems to work on
<Kim>>>samples that are << nrow(resultsfuzzy) but it takes suspicously long.
<Kim>>>
<Kim>>>Do you have any suggestions how to make the character replacing
<Kim>>>more efficient?
<Kim>>>
<Kim>>>Code:
<Kim>>>
<Kim>>>for (i in 1:nrow(resultsfuzzy))
<Kim>>>{
<Kim>>>if (resultsfuzzy[i,2] == "5a"){resultsfuzzy[i,2] <- 1} else
<Kim>>>      if (resultsfuzzy[i,2] == "5b"){resultsfuzzy[i,2] <- 2} else
<Kim>>>          if (resultsfuzzy[i,2] == "5c"){resultsfuzzy[i,2] <- 3} else
<Kim>>>              if (resultsfuzzy[i,2] == "5d"){resultsfuzzy[i,2] <- 4}
<Kim>>>else
<Kim>>>                  resultsfuzzy[i,2] <- 5
<Kim>>>}
<Kim>>>
<Kim>>>Thanks,
<Kim>>>
<Kim>>>Kim
<Kim>>>
<Kim>>>version
<Kim>>>
<Kim>>>platform i386-pc-mingw32
<Kim>>>arch     i386
<Kim>>>os       mingw32
<Kim>>>system   i386, mingw32
<Kim>>>status
<Kim>>>major    2
<Kim>>>minor    2.1
<Kim>>>year     2005
<Kim>>>month    12
<Kim>>>day      20
<Kim>>>svn rev  36812
<Kim>>>language R
<Kim>>>
<Kim>>>__________________________________________
<Kim>>>
<Kim>>>Kim Milferstedt
<Kim>>>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
<Kim>>>Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
<Kim>>>4125 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
<Kim>>>205 North Mathews Avenue MC-250
<Kim>>>Urbana, IL 61801
<Kim>>>USA
<Kim>>>phone: (001) 217 333-9663
<Kim>>>fax: (001) 217 333-6968
<Kim>>>email: milferst a uiuc.edu
<Kim>>>http://cee.uiuc.edu/research/morgenroth
<Kim>>>
<Kim>>>______________________________________________
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<Kim>>>PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- guide.html
<Kim>>>and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
<Kim>
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