[R] comparing two matrices

[Marc Schwartz]

On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 00:14 +0200, Adrian Dusa wrote:
> Dear helpeRs,
> 
> I have two matrices:
> mat1 <- expand.grid(0:2, 0:2, 0:2)
> mat2 <- aa[c(19, 16, 13, 24, 8), ]
> 
> where mat2 is always a subset of mat1
> 
> I need to find the corersponding row numbers in mat1 for each row in mat2.
> For this I have the following code:
> 
> apply(mat2, 1, function(x) {
>     which(apply(mat1, 1, function(y) {
>         sum(x == y)
>         }) == ncol(mat1))
>     })
> 
> The code is vectorized, but I wonder if there is a simpler (hence faster) 
> matrix computation that I miss.
> 
> Thank you,
> Adrian


I have not fully tested this, but how about:

mat1 <- matrix(1:20, ncol = 4, byrow = TRUE)
mat2 <- matrix(1:60, ncol = 4, byrow = TRUE)
mat2 <- mat2[sample(15), ]

> mat1
     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
[1,]    1    2    3    4
[2,]    5    6    7    8
[3,]    9   10   11   12
[4,]   13   14   15   16
[5,]   17   18   19   20

> mat2
      [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
 [1,]   13   14   15   16
 [2,]    5    6    7    8
 [3,]   41   42   43   44
 [4,]   17   18   19   20
 [5,]   21   22   23   24
 [6,]   25   26   27   28
 [7,]   53   54   55   56
 [8,]    9   10   11   12
 [9,]   57   58   59   60
[10,]   33   34   35   36
[11,]   49   50   51   52
[12,]   45   46   47   48
[13,]    1    2    3    4
[14,]   29   30   31   32
[15,]   37   38   39   40

> which(apply(matrix(mat2 %in% mat1, dim(mat2)), 1, all))
[1]  1  2  4  8 13


HTH,

Marc Schwartz