A problem about outer()
Thanks for the informative comments and the detailed explanation. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adaikalavan Ramasamy" <ramasamy at cancer.org.uk> To: "Feng Chen" <fengchen at hkusua.hku.hk> Cc: "R-help" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 12:25 AM Subject: Re: [R] A problem about outer()
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On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 23:03 +0800, Feng Chen wrote:
Dear all, I have something about function outer() that I can't understand. Just see the following example. The two NaNs are due to 0/0, but I can't figure out the cause of the last two errors. I wonder if some one can explain this for me.
___________________________________________________________________ sx=rbinom(10,1,0.5);ot=rbinom(10,1,0.5);ag <- rbinom(10,100,0.3);ho <- rbinom(10,100,0.5)
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Thanks, I have followed the instructions listed on that page.
dp <- function(s,a,h)sum((sx==s)&(ag==a)&(ho==h)&(ot==1))/sum((sx==s)&(ag==a)&(ho==h))
(function(x,y)dp(1,x,y))(2,3)
[1] NaN
(function(x,y)dp(0,x,y))(27,52)
[1] NaN
Again this is confusing. Why not define another function (you will need
Here just for testing pupose. I thought I just need that once (in the outer() function).
to anyway - see below). Alternatively, you can set 1 as the default value for s in dp().
dpm <- outer(ag,ho,function(x,y)dp(1,x,y))
Error in outer(ag, ho, function(x, y) dp(1, x, y)) : dim<- : dims [product 100] do not match the length of object [1]
From help("outer") :
'FUN' must be a function (or the name of it) which expects at least two arguments and which operates elementwise on arrays. And following the suggestion of Prof. Daalgard in the thread http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/00a/1445.html dp.vect <- function(s, x, y){ sapply( 1:length(x), function(i) dp( s=s, a=x[i], h=y[i]) ) } outer(ag, ho, FUN=dp.vect, s=1 ) # works but I leave the verification to you
It does work.
Your problem could be generalised as the following example one <- rnorm(3); two <- rnorm(4) # data outer( one, two, function(x, y) x + y ) # works fine outer( one, two, function(x, y) sum(c(x, y)) ) # does not work
I had tried this before posting.
sum.vect <- function(x, y){
sapply( 1:length(x), function(i) sum( c( x[i], y[i] ) ) )
}
outer( one, two, sum.vect )
You have thoroughly explained away my confusion. Thanks for your great patience. Thank all for being so tolerant and friendly to newcomers.
dpf <- outer(ag,ho,function(x,y)dp(0,x,y))
Error in outer(ag, ho, function(x, y) dp(0, x, y)) : dim<- : dims [product 100] do not match the length of object [1]
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