Hi,
Just to add: N <- 1000 M <- 5 P <- 5000 set.seed(15) A <- matrix(runif(N,1,1000),nrow=N,ncol=M) set.seed(425) B <- matrix(runif(M,1,1000),nrow=P,ncol=M) Marius.3.0<-function(A,B){do.call(cbind,lapply(split(B,row(B)),function(x) colSums(x>=t(A))==ncol(A)))} Marius.2.0 <- function(A, B){ nA <- nrow(A) nB <- nrow(B) C <- do.call(rbind, rep(list(B), nA)) >= matrix(rep(A, each=nB), ncol=ncol(B)) matrix(rowSums(C) == ncol(A), nA, nB, byrow=TRUE) } system.time(z3.0<-Marius.3.0(A,B)) # user system elapsed # 0.524 0.020 0.548 system.time(z2.0<-Marius.2.0(A,B)) # user system elapsed # 0.968 0.216 1.189 system.time(z1<-perhaps(A,B)) # user system elapsed # 1.264 0.204 1.473 attr(z3.0,"dim")<-dim(z2.0) identical(z3.0,z2.0) #[1] TRUE identical(z1,z3.0) #[1] TRUE A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Marius Hofert <marius.hof...@math.ethz.ch> To: R-help <r-help@r-project.org> Cc: Sent: Saturday, December 8, 2012 6:28 AM Subject: [R] How to efficiently compare each row in a matrix with each row in another matrix? Dear expeRts, I have two matrices A and B. They have the same number of columns but possibly different number of rows. I would like to compare each row of A with each row of B and check whether all entries in a row of A are less than or equal to all entries in a row of B. Here is a minimal working example: A <- rbind(matrix(1:4, ncol=2, byrow=TRUE), c(6, 2)) # (3, 2) matrix B <- matrix(1:10, ncol=2) # (5, 2) matrix ( ind <- apply(B, 1, function(b) apply(A, 1, function(a) all(a <= b))) ) # (3, 5) = (nrow(A), nrow(B)) matrix The question is: How can this be implemented more efficiently in R, that is, in a faster way? Thanks & cheers, Marius ______________________________________________ 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.