[R] Using lapply when there are dependencies

Jeff Newmiller jdnewmil at dcn.davis.CA.us
Thu May 28 08:44:07 CEST 2015


For loops are not slow. Inefficient memory management in for loops is slow.  Feel free to preallocate your output vectors and write for loops to your heart's content. If you really want speed you can write this in C++ using Rcpp [1]. If your f() is a standard digital filter algorithm this has already been done for you (see ?filter).

[1] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help//2014-December/424027.html
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On May 27, 2015 4:34:01 PM PDT, blue honour via R-help <r-help at r-project.org> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Let's say I have a vector:
>
>vv<-c(1,2,3)
>
>
>And suppose I have a function f(a,b), which is a function of 2 scalar
>inputs. I would like to evaluate this function separately for each
>element of the vv vector while the second input to f( ) will be the
>previous output from f( ). So, the valuation of f() has a dependency on
>the previous f( ) valuation (recursive). This type of calculation is
>easy to set up with a for loop but that will run slow. How can I
>achieve this with apply family of functions please?
>
>I have the same question for the case when vv is a data.table instead
>of a vector.
>
>Thank you for any help.
>
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