Applying a function to each element of an array

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-
bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Patrick Burns
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 4:29 PM
To: Tim Smith
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Applying a function to each element of an array

If there weren't an analytic solution to your problem,
then you could build a vector of the answers from 1
to the maximum in the matrix.  Call that 'wtvec'.  Then:

ans <- array(NA, dim(A), dimnames(A))
ans[] <- wtvec[as.vector(A)]

should get you what you want.


Patrick Burns
patrick at burns-stat.com
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http://www.burns-stat.com
(home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User")

Tim Smith wrote:

Hi,

I have a 7000x7000 matrix, and each element is an integer. For each

element, I want to apply the function :

wt <- 0
for(q in 1:count){
wt <- wt + 0.5^(q-1)
}

I get the value of 'count' from the elements in the matrix , and want to

store the corresponding 'wt' value for that element.

I suppose I could loop through the matrix, and apply the function to each

element but this would take a really really long time. Are there any
quicker ways to get the same result?

many thanks,

Tim


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