You appear to be trying to write C code in R. Don't do this. If you can trade off space for efficiency, the calculation can be easily vectorized (assuming I correctly understand what you want to do, of course).
set.seed(135) ## for reproducibility D1<-data.frame(x=1:5,y=6:10,z=rnorm(5)) D2<-data.frame(x=19:30,y=41:52,z=rnorm(12)) D.all <-merge(D1,D2, by.x=NULL,by.y=NULL) ## Cartesian product of the two frames D.all$distance <- sqrt(rowSums((D.all[,1:2] - D.all[,4:5])^2)) ## note use of rowSums D.all$difference <- (D.all[,3] - D.all[,6])^2 D.all Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 8:19 AM, Rathore, Saubhagya Singh <saubha...@gatech.edu> wrote: > For certain reason, the content was not visible in the last mail, so posting > it again. > > Dear Members, > > I have two different dataframes with a different number of rows. I need to > apply a set of functions to each possible combination of rows with one row > coming from 1st dataframe and other from 2nd dataframe. Though I am able to > perform this task using for loops, I feel that there must be a more efficient > way to do it. An example case is given below. D1 and D2 are two dataframes. I > need to evaluate D3 with one column as the Euclidean distance in the x-y > plane and second column as squared difference of z values, of each row pair > from D1 and D2. > > D1<-data.frame(x=1:5,y=6:10,z=rnorm(5)) > D2<-data.frame(x=19:30,y=41:52,z=rnorm(12)) > D3<-data.frame(distance=integer(0),difference=integer(0)) > > for (i in 1:nrow(D1)){ > > for (j in 1:nrow(D2)) { > > temp<-data.frame(distance=sqrt(sum((D1[i,1:2]-D2[j,1:2])^2)),difference=(D1[i,3]-D2[j,3])^2) > D3<-rbind(D3,temp) > } > } > > Thank you > > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of > r-help-ow...@r-project.org > Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 10:47 AM > To: Rathore, Saubhagya Singh <saubha...@gatech.edu> > Subject: R version 3.3.2, Windows 10: Applying a function to each possible > pair of rows from two different data-frames > > The message's content type was not explicitly allowed > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.