[R] permutations in R

[David Winsemius]

On Mar 16, 2009, at 6:43 PM, Stavros Macrakis wrote:

> Greg,
>
> Thanks for helping this user.
>
> I assume you mean the permn function in the combinat package? For a
> new user (including me), it is not obvious how to get from "the
> permutations function in the Combinations package" to that.
>
> I see there is also a function gtools::permutations.  The gtools
> package seems to be more recent than combinat, but I don't know if it
> is better.  You might expect a utils::permn since there is a
> utils::combn, but there isn't one....
>
> I'm not bringing this up because I am bloody-minded, but because I
> think it's a serious issue with the R libraries -- there is no obvious
> way to find relevant functions, and no way of knowing which one to use
> if there is more than one.  Or am I missing some trick?

<http://search.r-project.org/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=permutations&max=100&result=normal&sort=score&idxname=functions 
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>
>
> Thanks,
>
>              -s
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Greg Snow <Greg.Snow at imail.org>  
> wrote:
>> Look at the permutations function in the Combinations package.   
>> Using the "fun" argument may accomplish what you want.  If not,  
>> there are references on the help page to other code that may work  
>> for you.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> --
>> Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
>> Statistical Data Center
>> Intermountain Healthcare
>> greg.snow at imail.org
>> 801.408.8111
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
>>> project.org] On Behalf Of onyourmark
>>> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 7:09 PM
>>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>>> Subject: [R] permutations in R
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi. Does anyone know of a function which will take as input a  
>>> number n
>>> (or a
>>> set of n letters) and will give out, one at a time, the  
>>> permutations of
>>> n
>>> (or of those n letters) as a vector?
>>> So that I can use the permutations one at a time. And such that it  
>>> will
>>> exhaust all the permutations with no repeats.
>>>
>>> For example if n is 3, I would want a function which I could use  
>>> in a
>>> loop
>>> and the first time I use it in the loop it may give the vector
>>> 123
>>> and then the next time in the loop it may give
>>> 132
>>> and so on until after 6 iterations through the loop I would get  
>>> all 6
>>> permutations of 123.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT