Hi Jeff, Indeed the data.table package does provide a much cleaner way to achieve the same functionality, and a lot of other functionality as bonus.
Thanks for letting me know about it. On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 at 15:41 Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: > You might find the data.table package helpful. It uses an index sorted > with a radix sort and minimizes moving the data around in memory. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... > DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live > Go... > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > On April 7, 2015 1:50:39 PM PDT, Keshav Dhandhania <kshav...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >Thanks for the responses. > >Herve's example is a good small size example of what I wanted. > > > >> y <- c(16, -3, -2, 15, 15, 0, 8, 15, -2) > >> someCoolFunc(-2, y) > >[1] 3 9 > >> someCoolFunc(15, y) > >[1] 4 5 8 > > > >The requirement is that I want someCoolFunc() to run in O(number of > >matches) time, instead of O(size of y). > >This is because y is big. And I don't know all the queries I want to > >do up-front. And the results of some queries might change the queries > >I want to do in the future. > > > >@David: I hope the above description is more clear. > >@Enrico, Herve: I want both the functionality provided by one function. > >- On repeated calls, fmatch() does give O(1) performance, but it does > >not give all matches. > >- findMatches() gives all matches, but I need to know the entire > >vector x beforehand. I don't have that luxury. > > > > > >I do have something that works now, using split and fmatch (package > >fastmatch). So just posting that in case anyone in the future has the > >same problem. > >> y.unique <- unique(y) > >> > >> # create a map from the unique elements of y to the locations of all > >occurrences of the element > >> y.map <- split(1:length(y), match(y, y.unique)) > >> > >> # write a wrapper function that does a look-up on the unique list. > >and then returns all matches using the map. > >> someCoolFunc <- function(x) { y.map[[ fmatch(x, y.unique) ]] } > > > > > > > >On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 at 13:21 Hervé Pagès <hpa...@fredhutch.org> wrote: > >> > >> Hi Keshav, > >> > >> findMatches() in the S4Vectors/IRanges packages (Bioconductor) I > >think > >> does what you want: > >> > >> library(IRanges) > >> y <- c(16L, -3L, -2L, 15L, 15L, 0L, 8L, 15L, -2L) > >> x <- c(unique(y), 999L) > >> hits <- findMatches(x, y) > >> > >> Then: > >> > >> > hits > >> Hits object with 9 hits and 0 metadata columns: > >> queryHits subjectHits > >> <integer> <integer> > >> [1] 1 1 > >> [2] 2 2 > >> [3] 3 3 > >> [4] 3 9 > >> [5] 4 4 > >> [6] 4 5 > >> [7] 4 8 > >> [8] 5 6 > >> [9] 6 7 > >> ------- > >> queryLength: 7 > >> subjectLength: 9 > >> > >> The Hits object can be turned into a list with: > >> > >> > as.list(hits) > >> [[1]] > >> [1] 1 > >> > >> [[2]] > >> [1] 2 > >> > >> [[3]] > >> [1] 3 9 > >> > >> [[4]] > >> [1] 4 5 8 > >> > >> [[5]] > >> [1] 6 > >> > >> [[6]] > >> [1] 7 > >> > >> [[7]] > >> integer(0) > >> > >> H. > >> > >> > sessionInfo() > >> R version 3.2.0 beta (2015-04-05 r68151) > >> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) > >> Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS > >> > >> locale: > >> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > >> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 > >> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 > >> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C > >> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > >> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > >> > >> attached base packages: > >> [1] parallel stats4 stats graphics grDevices utils > >datasets > >> [8] methods base > >> > >> other attached packages: > >> [1] IRanges_2.1.43 S4Vectors_0.5.22 BiocGenerics_0.13.11 > >> > >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > >> [1] tools_3.2.0 > >> > >> On 04/06/2015 01:56 PM, Keshav Dhandhania wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I know that one can find all occurrences of x in a vector v by > >doing > >> >> which(x == v). > >> > > >> > However, if I need to do this again and again, where v is remaining > >the > >> > same, then this is quite inefficient. In my particular case, I need > >to do > >> > this millions of times, and length(v) = 100 million. > >> > > >> > Does anyone have suggestion on how to go about it? > >> > I know of a package called fmatch that does the above for the match > >> > function. But they don't handle multiple matches. > >> > > >> > Thanks > >> > > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >> > > >> > ______________________________________________ > >> > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > >> > 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. > >> > > >> > >> -- > >> Hervé Pagès > >> > >> Program in Computational Biology > >> Division of Public Health Sciences > >> Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center > >> 1100 Fairview Ave. N, M1-B514 > >> P.O. 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