Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> Here are a few more solutions. x is the input vector
> of character strings.
>
> The first is a slightly shorter version of one of Wacek's.
> The next three all create an anonymous grouping variable
> (using sub, substr/gsub and strapply respectively)
> whose components are "p" and "q" and then tapply
> is used to separate out the corresponding components
> of x according to the grouping:
>
> sapply(c(p = "^[^pq]*p", q = "^[^pq]*q"), grep, x = x, value = TRUE)
>
> tapply(x, sub("^[^pq]*(.).*", "\\1", x), c)
>
> tapply(x, substr(gsub("[^pq]", "", x), 1, 1), c)
>
> library(gsubfn)
> tapply(x, strapply(x, "^[^pq]*(.)", simplify = c), c)
>
wow! cool stuff. if you're interested in comparing their efficiency,
source the attached script.
vQ
generate = function(n, m)
replicate(n, paste(sample(letters, m, replace=TRUE), collapse=""))
tests = list(
wacek =
function(data) {
p = grep("^[^pq]*p", data)
list(p=data[p], q=data[-p])
},
gabor1 =
function(data)
sapply(c(p="^[^pq]*p", q="^[^pq]*q"), grep, x=data, value=TRUE),
gabor2 =
function(data)
tapply(data, sub("^[^pq]*p(.).*", "\\1", data), c),
gabor3 =
function(data)
tapply(data, substr(gsub("[^pq]", "", data), 1, 1), c),
gabor4 =
{ library(gsubfn); function(data)
tapply(data, strapply(data, "^[^pq]*(.)", simplify=c), c) }
)
data = generate(1000,10)
lapply(names(tests),
function(name) {
cat(name, ":\n", sep="")
print(system.time(replicate(30,tests[[name]](data)))) } )
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