Simply avoiding the for loops by using lapply (I may have missed a bracket here or there cause I did this without opening R)... Haven't checked the speed up, though.
lapply(seq.yvar, function(k){ plot(mydata1[[k]]~mydata1[[ind.xvar]], type="p", xlab=names(mydata1)[ind.xvar], ylab=names(mydata1)[k]) lapply(seq_along(mydata_list), function(j){ foo_reg(dat=mydata_list[[j]], xvar=ind.xvar, yvar=k, mycol=j, pos=mypos[j], name.dat=names(mydata_list)[j]) return(NULL) }) invisible(NULL) }) HTH, Nick Sabbe -- ping: nick.sa...@ugent.be link: http://biomath.ugent.be wink: A1.056, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Gent ring: 09/264.59.36 -- Do Not Disapprove -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ivan Calandra Sent: vrijdag 25 februari 2011 11:20 To: r-help Subject: [R] speed up process Dear users, I have a double for loop that does exactly what I want, but is quite slow. It is not so much with this simplified example, but IRL it is slow. Can anyone help me improve it? The data and code for foo_reg() are available at the end of the email; I preferred going directly into the problematic part. Here is the code (I tried to simplify it but I cannot do it too much or else it wouldn't represent my problem). It might also look too complex for what it is intended to do, but my colleagues who are also supposed to use it don't know much about R. So I wrote it so that they don't have to modify the critical parts to run the script for their needs. #column indexes for function ind.xvar <- 2 seq.yvar <- 3:4 #position vector for legend(), stupid positioning but it doesn't matter here mypos <- c("topleft", "topright","bottomleft") #run the function for columns 3&4 as y (seq.yvar) with column 2 as x (ind.xvar) for all 3 datasets (mydata_list) par(mfrow=c(2,1)) for (i in seq_along(seq.yvar)){ k <- seq.yvar[i] plot(mydata1[[k]]~mydata1[[ind.xvar]], type="p", xlab=names(mydata1)[ind.xvar], ylab=names(mydata1)[k]) for (j in seq_along(mydata_list)){ foo_reg(dat=mydata_list[[j]], xvar=ind.xvar, yvar=k, mycol=j, pos=mypos[j], name.dat=names(mydata_list)[j]) } } I tried with lapply() or mapply() but couldn't manage to pass the arguments for names() and col= correctly, e.g. for the 2nd loop: lapply(mydata_list, FUN=function(x){foo_reg(dat=x, xvar=ind.xvar, yvar=k, col1=1:3, pos=mypos[1:3], name.dat=names(x)[1:3])}) mapply(FUN=function(x) {foo_reg(dat=x, name.dat=names(x)[1:3])}, mydata_list, col1=1:3, pos=mypos, MoreArgs=list(xvar=ind.xvar, yvar=k)) Thanks in advance for any hints. Ivan #create data (it looks horrible with these datasets but it doesn't matter here) mydata1 <- structure(list(species = structure(1:8, .Label = c("alsen", "gogor", "loalb", "mafas", "pacyn", "patro", "poabe", "thgel"), class = "factor"), fruit = c(0.52, 0.45, 0.43, 0.82, 0.35, 0.9, 0.68, 0), Asfc = c(207.463765, 138.5533755, 70.4391735, 160.9742745, 41.455809, 119.155109, 26.241441, 148.337377), Tfv = c(47068.1437773483, 43743.8087431582, 40323.5209129239, 23420.9455581495, 29382.6947428651, 50460.2202192311, 21810.1456510625, 41747.6053810881)), .Names = c("species", "fruit", "Asfc", "Tfv"), row.names = c(NA, 8L), class = "data.frame") mydata2 <- mydata1[!(mydata1$species %in% c("thgel","alsen")),] mydata3 <- mydata1[!(mydata1$species %in% c("thgel","alsen","poabe")),] mydata_list <- list(mydata1=mydata1, mydata2=mydata2, mydata3=mydata3) #function for regression library(WRS) foo_reg <- function(dat, xvar, yvar, mycol, pos, name.dat){ tsts <- tstsreg(dat[[xvar]], dat[[yvar]]) tsts_inter <- signif(tsts$coef[1], digits=3) tsts_slope <- signif(tsts$coef[2], digits=3) abline(tsts$coef, lty=1, col=mycol) legend(x=pos, legend=c(paste("TSTS ",name.dat,": Y=",tsts_inter,"+",tsts_slope,"X",sep="")), lty=1, col=mycol) } -- Ivan CALANDRA PhD Student University of Hamburg Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum Abt. Säugetiere Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3 D-20146 Hamburg, GERMANY +49(0)40 42838 6231 ivan.calan...@uni-hamburg.de ********** http://www.for771.uni-bonn.de http://webapp5.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/mammals/eng/1525_8_1.php ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.