On 30/06/09 17:53, Chuck White wrote:
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Is there a way to avoid the for loop? The following seems to work:
lapply(density.factor,grep,names(data.df))
However, that produces a list of lists which need to be merged. Note that in
the above example since we have 2 regular expressions, there will be two lists
but in the general case there will be many more.
It is hiding, not avoiding the for loop, but if you are happy with the
lapply() approach then just use unlist() on the result:
unlist(lapply(density.factor, grep, names(data.df)))
I wouldn’t worry about optimizing performance: it isn’t the sort of
thing you are going to be running a million times per second. Keep it
understandable and maintainable.
Hope this helps a little.
Allan.
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