Trouble doing large transpose using reshape2::cast function - r

I have a large dataset (2.8m rows x 4 columns) in R that I'm trying to transpose. I was attempting to use the reshape2::cast function to do the transpose but it's running out of memory.
Question 1: is there a better way to do the transpose?
Question 2: I am attempting to chop the data set up into pieces, do the transpose on the pieces and then reassemble it. However, I'm running into an issue on the reassembly step where cbind requires I know in advance which columns I want to join on. is there a clever way around this issue?
bigtranspose<-function(dataset){
n<-nrow(dataset)
i<-1
while (i<=n){
#take 10 rows at a time and do the transpose
UB <- min(i+10, n)
small<-dataset[i:UB,]
smallmelt<-melt(small, id=c("memberID", "merchantID"))
t<-dcast(smallmelt, memberID~merchantID, na.rm=TRUE)
#stack the results together
if ( !exists("finaldataset") )
finaldataset<-t
else
finaldataset<-rbind(finaldataset,t)
i <- i+10+1
}
}

You can just use t function to do transpose
mat <- matrix(1:(3e+06 * 4), ncol = 4)
dim(mat)
## [1] 3000000 4
tmat <- t(mat)
dim(tmat)
## [1] 4 3000000
# And it's fast
system.time(tmat <- t(mat))
## user system elapsed
## 0.05 0.03 0.08

Related

R: Generating all possible combinations of 1 and 0

I am trying to generate all possible permutations of a long vector (30 elements) consisting of 0 and 1. I have tried several functions including permn and expand.grid , but none of them seems to be able to cope with this issue (due to size constraints).
Any advice would be really helpful!
What you need is a multiset permutation.
> library(iterpc)
> I <- iterpc(c(16, 14), labels=c(0,1), ordered=TRUE)
> getlength(I)
[1] 145422675
The matrix is 145422675 by 30, too large to be stored in a single matrix. Use getnext to get the next 10000000 permutations.
> getnext(I, 10000000)
You could repeat the above 15 times in order to get all the permutations.
a simple and naive implementation...
system.time(x <- combn(30,14))
# user system elapsed
# 252.42 2.17 254.98
pryr::object_size(x)
# 8.14 GB
dim(x)
# [1] 14 145422675
system.time(
apply(x[,1:1e6],2,function(index){
V <- rep(0,30)
V[index] <- 1
return(V)
} )
)
# user system elapsed
# 8.23 0.24 8.52
I would not run the entire x unless there is a good reason...

fast way in R to do two nested for loops [duplicate]

This question already has answers here:
Subtract every element of vector A from every element of vector B
(4 answers)
Closed 5 years ago.
I need to take the difference between any two elements of two vector.
If A<-c(1,2) and B<-c(3,4) then my result R should be c(3-1,3-2,4-1,4-2).
With this snippet
myfunction <- function(N)
{
A = runif(N)
B = runif(N)
R = c()
for(a in A){
for(b in B){
R=c(b-a,R)
}
}
R
}
print(system.time(result <- myfunction(300)))
I get this time
user system elapsed
14.27 0.01 14.39
Is there any faster way to do it?
The fastest base solution is the use of outer:
as.vector(outer(B,A,"-"))
To my own surprise, map2_dbl is actually quite a bit faster than outer:
Not to my surprise, map2_dbl seems faster, but that's because it is not calculating every combination of values in A and B:
test elapsed relative
3 CP(A, B) 7.54 47.125 # using expand.grid
2 JL(A, B) 0.16 1.000 # using map2_dbl
1 JM(A, B) 3.13 19.563 # using outer
But:
> A <- 1:3
> B <- 3:1
> JL(A,B)
[1] -2 0 2
> JM(A,B)
[1] 2 1 0 1 0 -1 0 -1 -2
This is for two vectors of length 1000, and with 100 replications. I didn't include your own solution because that one is ridiculously slow for two reasons:
for loops in R are quite a bit faster than in the old days, but still not as optimal as using functions that have their loops coded in C or equivalent. That's the case for the functions used in the tested code here.
you "grow" your result object. Every loop through the code, that R becomes one value larger, so R has to look for a new place in the memory to store it. That's actually the biggest bottleneck in your code. Try to avoid that kind of construct at all costs, because it's one of the most important causes of terribly slow code.
The benchmark code:
library(tidyverse)
JM <- function(A,B){
as.vector(outer(B,A,"-"))
}
JL <- function(A,B){
map2_dbl(.x = A,
.y = B,
.f = ~ c(.x - .y))
}
CP <- function(A,B){
as.data.frame(expand.grid(A,B)) %>%
mutate(Var3 = Var2-Var1)
}
library(rbenchmark)
A <- runif(1000)
B <- runif(1000)
benchmark(JM(A,B),
JL(A,B),
CP(A,B),
replications = 100,
columns = c("test","elapsed","relative"))
You can use expand.grid to vectorize the approach:
A <- runif(300)
B <- runif(300)
library(dplyr)
R <- as.data.frame(expand.grid(A,B)) %>%
mutate(Var3 = Var2-Var1)
The first 5 lines of output:
Var1 Var2 Var3
1 0.8516676 0.325261 -0.5264066246
2 0.2126453 0.325261 0.1126156694
3 0.5394620 0.325261 -0.2142010126
4 0.1364876 0.325261 0.1887734290
5 0.3248651 0.325261 0.0003958747
This took:
user system elapsed
0.02 0.00 0.02
Your function took:
user system elapsed
42.39 0.43 42.90
Using purrr::map2:
library(tidyverse)
N = 300
A = runif(N)
B = runif(N)
R = c()
print(
system.time(
result <- map(
.x = A,
.f = ~ c(.x - B)) %>% unlist
)
)
Time taken:
user system elapsed
0.02 0 0.02
If I got your attention now, check out this repo for a nice walk through of purrr.

set missing values to constant in R, computational speed

In R, I have a reasonably large data frame (d) which is 10500 by 6000. All values are numeric.
It has many na value elements in both its rows and columns, and I am looking to replace these values with a zero. I have used:
d[is.na(d)] <- 0
but this is rather slow. Is there a better way to do this in R?
I am open to using other R packages.
I would prefer it if the discussion focused on computational speed rather than, "why would you replace na's with zeros", for example. And, while I realize a similar Q has been asked (How do I replace NA values with zeros in an R dataframe?) the focus has not been towards computational speed on a large data frame with many missing values.
Thanks!
Edited Solution:
As helpfully suggested, changing d to a matrix before applying is.na sped up the computation by an order of magnitude
You can get a considerable performance increase using the data.table package.
It is much faster, in general, with a lot of manipulations and transformations.
The downside is the learning curve of the syntax.
However, if you are looking for a speed performance boost, the investment could be worth it.
Generate fake data
r <- 10500
c <- 6000
x <- sample(c(NA, 1:5), r * c, replace = TRUE)
df <- data.frame(matrix(x, nrow = r, ncol = c))
Base R
df1 <- df
system.time(df1[is.na(df1)] <- 0)
user system elapsed
4.74 0.00 4.78
tidyr - replace_na()
dfReplaceNA <- function (df) {
require(tidyr)
l <- setNames(lapply(vector("list", ncol(df)), function(x) x <- 0), names(df))
replace_na(df, l)
}
system.time(df2 <- dfReplaceNA(df))
user system elapsed
4.27 0.00 4.28
data.table - set()
dtReplaceNA <- function (df) {
require(data.table)
dt <- data.table(df)
for (j in 1:ncol(dt)) {set(dt, which(is.na(dt[[j]])), j, 0)}
setDF(dt) # Return back a data.frame object
}
system.time(df3 <- dtReplaceNA(df))
user system elapsed
0.80 0.31 1.11
Compare data frames
all.equal(df1, df2)
[1] TRUE
all.equal(df1, df3)
[1] TRUE
I guess that all columns must be numeric or assigning 0s to NAs wouldn't be sensible.
I get the following timings, with approximately 10,000 NAs:
> M <- matrix(0, 10500, 6000)
> set.seed(54321)
> r <- sample(1:10500, 10000, replace=TRUE)
> c <- sample(1:6000, 10000, replace=TRUE)
> M[cbind(r, c)] <- NA
> D <- data.frame(M)
> sum(is.na(M)) # check
[1] 9999
> sum(is.na(D)) # check
[1] 9999
> system.time(M[is.na(M)] <- 0)
user system elapsed
0.19 0.12 0.31
> system.time(D[is.na(D)] <- 0)
user system elapsed
3.87 0.06 3.95
So, with this number of NAs, I get about an order of magnitude speedup by using a matrix. (With fewer NAs, the difference is smaller.) But the time using a data frame is just 4 seconds on my modest laptop -- much less time than it took to answer the question. If the problem really is of this magnitude, why is that slow?
I hope this helps.

Efficient subsetting in R using 2 dataframes

I have a big time series full in one dataframe and a list of timestamps in a different dataframe test. I need to subset full with data points surrounding the timestamps in test. My first instinct (as an R noob) was to write the below, which was wrong
subs <- subset(full,(full$dt>test$dt-i) & (full$dt<test$dt+i))
Looking at the result I realized that R is looping through both the vectors simultaneously giving the wrong result. My option is to write a loop like the below:
subs<-data.frame()
for (j in test$dt)
subs <- rbind(subs,subset(full,full$dt>(j-i) & full$dt<(j+i)))
I feel that there might be a better way to do loops and this article implores us to avoid R loops as much as possible. The other reason is I might be hitting up against performance issues as this would be at the heart of an optimization algorithm. Any suggestions from gurus would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT:
Here is some reproducible code that shows the wrong approach as well as the approach that works but could be better.
#create a times series
full <- data.frame(seq(1:200),rnorm(200,0,1))
colnames(full)<-c("dt","val")
#my smaller array of points of interest
test <- data.frame(seq(5,200,by=23))
colnames(test)<-c("dt")
# my range around the points of interset
i<-3
#the wrong approach
subs <- subset(full,(full$dt>test$dt-i) & (full$dt<test$dt+i))
#this works, but not sure this is the best way to go about it
subs<-data.frame()
for (j in test$dt)
subs <- rbind(subs,subset(full,full$dt>(j-i) & full$dt<(j+i)))
EDIT:
I updated the values to better reflect my usecase, and I see #mrdwab 's solution pulling ahead unexpectedly and by a wide margin.
I am using benchmark code from #mrdwab and the initialization is as follows:
set.seed(1)
full <- data.frame(
dt = 1:15000000,
val = floor(rnorm(15000000,0,1))
)
test <- data.frame(dt = floor(runif(24,1,15000000)))
i <- 500
The benchmarks are:
test replications elapsed relative
2 mrdwab 2 1.31 1.00000
3 spacedman 2 69.06 52.71756
1 andrie 2 93.68 71.51145
4 original 2 114.24 87.20611
Totally unexpected. Mind = blown. Can someone please shed some light in this dark corner and enlighten as to what is happening.
Important: As #mrdwab notes below, his solution works only if the vectors are integers. If not, #spacedman has the right solution
Here's a real R way to do it. Functionally. No loops...
Starting with Andrie's example data.
First, an interval comparison function:
> cf = function(l,u){force(l);force(u);function(x){x>l & x<u}}
An OR composition function:
> OR = function(f1,f2){force(f1);force(f2);function(x){f1(x)|f2(x)}}
Now there's sort of a loop here, to construct a list of those comparison functions:
> funs = mapply(cf,test$dt-i,test$dt+i)
Now combine all those into one function:
> anyF = Reduce(OR,funs)
And now we apply the OR composition to our interval testing functions:
> head(full[anyF(full$dt),])
dt val
3 3 -0.83562861
4 4 1.59528080
5 5 0.32950777
6 6 -0.82046838
7 7 0.48742905
26 26 -0.05612874
What you've got now is a function of a single variable that tests if the value is in the ranges you defined.
> anyF(1:10)
[1] FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE
I don't know if this is faster, or better, or what. Someone do some benchmarks!
I don't know if it's any more efficient, but I would think you could also do something like this to get what you want:
subs <- apply(test, 1, function(x) c((x-2):(x+2)))
full[which(full$dt %in% subs), ]
I had to adjust your "3" to "2" since x would be included both ways.
Benchmarking (just for fun)
#Spacedman leads the way!
First, the required data and functions.
## Data
set.seed(1)
full <- data.frame(
dt = 1:200,
val = rnorm(200,0,1)
)
test <- data.frame(dt = seq(5,200,by=23))
i <- 3
## Spacedman's functions
cf = function(l,u){force(l);force(u);function(x){x>l & x<u}}
OR = function(f1,f2){force(f1);force(f2);function(x){f1(x)|f2(x)}}
funs = mapply(cf,test$dt-i,test$dt+i)
anyF = Reduce(OR,funs)
Second, the benchmarking.
## Benchmarking
require(rbenchmark)
benchmark(andrie = do.call(rbind,
lapply(test$dt,
function(j) full[full$dt > (j-i) &
full$dt < (j+i), ])),
mrdwab = {subs <- apply(test, 1,
function(x) c((x-(i-1)):(x+(i-1))))
full[which(full$dt %in% subs), ]},
spacedman = full[anyF(full$dt),],
original = {subs <- data.frame()
for (j in test$dt)
subs <- rbind(subs,
subset(full, full$dt > (j-i) &
full$dt < (j+i)))},
columns = c("test", "replications", "elapsed", "relative"),
order = "relative")
# test replications elapsed relative
# 3 spacedman 100 0.064 1.000000
# 2 mrdwab 100 0.105 1.640625
# 1 andrie 100 0.520 8.125000
# 4 original 100 1.080 16.875000
There is nothing inherently wrong with your code. To achieve your aim, you need a loop of some sort around a vectorised subset operation.
But here is more R-ish way to do it, which might well be faster:
do.call(rbind,
lapply(test$dt, function(j)full[full$dt > (j-i) & full$dt < (j+i), ])
)
PS: You can significantly simplify your reproducible example:
set.seed(1)
full <- data.frame(
dt = 1:200,
val = rnorm(200,0,1)
)
test <- data.frame(dt = seq(5,200,by=23))
i <- 3
xx <- do.call(rbind,
lapply(test$dt, function(j)full[full$dt > (j-i) & full$dt < (j+i), ])
)
head(xx)
dt val
3 3 -0.83562861
4 4 1.59528080
5 5 0.32950777
6 6 -0.82046838
7 7 0.48742905
26 26 -0.05612874
one more way using data.tables:
{
temp <- data.table(x=unique(c(full$dt,(test$dt-i),(test$dt+i))),key="x")
temp[,index:=1:nrow(temp)]
startpoints <- temp[J(test$dt-i),index]$index
endpoints <- temp[J(test$dt+i),index]$index
allpoints <- as.vector(mapply(FUN=function(x,y) x:y,x=startpoints,y=endpoints))
setkey(x=temp,index)
ans <- temp[J(allpoints)]$x
}
benchmarks:
number of rows in test:9
number of rows in full:10000
test replications elapsed relative
1 spacedman 100 0.406 1.000
2 new 100 1.179 2.904
number of rows in full:100000
test replications elapsed relative
2 new 100 2.374 1.000
1 spacedman 100 3.753 1.581

How to count TRUE values in a logical vector

In R, what is the most efficient/idiomatic way to count the number of TRUE values in a logical vector? I can think of two ways:
z <- sample(c(TRUE, FALSE), 1000, rep = TRUE)
sum(z)
# [1] 498
table(z)["TRUE"]
# TRUE
# 498
Which do you prefer? Is there anything even better?
The safest way is to use sum with na.rm = TRUE:
sum(z, na.rm = TRUE) # best way to count TRUE values
which gives 1.
There are some problems with other solutions when logical vector contains NA values.
See for example:
z <- c(TRUE, FALSE, NA)
sum(z) # gives you NA
table(z)["TRUE"] # gives you 1
length(z[z == TRUE]) # f3lix answer, gives you 2 (because NA indexing returns values)
Additionally table solution is less efficient (look at the code of table function).
Also, you should be careful with the "table" solution, in case there are no TRUE values in the logical vector. See for example:
z <- c(FALSE, FALSE)
table(z)["TRUE"] # gives you `NA`
or
z <- c(NA, FALSE)
table(z)["TRUE"] # gives you `NA`
Another option which hasn't been mentioned is to use which:
length(which(z))
Just to actually provide some context on the "which is faster question", it's always easiest just to test yourself. I made the vector much larger for comparison:
z <- sample(c(TRUE,FALSE),1000000,rep=TRUE)
system.time(sum(z))
user system elapsed
0.03 0.00 0.03
system.time(length(z[z==TRUE]))
user system elapsed
0.75 0.07 0.83
system.time(length(which(z)))
user system elapsed
1.34 0.28 1.64
system.time(table(z)["TRUE"])
user system elapsed
10.62 0.52 11.19
So clearly using sum is the best approach in this case. You may also want to check for NA values as Marek suggested.
Just to add a note regarding NA values and the which function:
> which(c(T, F, NA, NULL, T, F))
[1] 1 4
> which(!c(T, F, NA, NULL, T, F))
[1] 2 5
Note that which only checks for logical TRUE, so it essentially ignores non-logical values.
Another way is
> length(z[z==TRUE])
[1] 498
While sum(z) is nice and short, for me length(z[z==TRUE]) is more self explaining. Though, I think with a simple task like this it does not really make a difference...
If it is a large vector, you probably should go with the fastest solution, which is sum(z). length(z[z==TRUE]) is about 10x slower and table(z)[TRUE] is about 200x slower than sum(z).
Summing up, sum(z) is the fastest to type and to execute.
Another option is to use summary function. It gives a summary of the Ts, Fs and NAs.
> summary(hival)
Mode FALSE TRUE NA's
logical 4367 53 2076
>
which is good alternative, especially when you operate on matrices (check ?which and notice the arr.ind argument). But I suggest that you stick with sum, because of na.rm argument that can handle NA's in logical vector.
For instance:
# create dummy variable
set.seed(100)
x <- round(runif(100, 0, 1))
x <- x == 1
# create NA's
x[seq(1, length(x), 7)] <- NA
If you type in sum(x) you'll get NA as a result, but if you pass na.rm = TRUE in sum function, you'll get the result that you want.
> sum(x)
[1] NA
> sum(x, na.rm=TRUE)
[1] 43
Is your question strictly theoretical, or you have some practical problem concerning logical vectors?
There's also a package called bit that is specifically designed for fast boolean operations. It's especially useful if you have large vectors or need to do many boolean operations.
z <- sample(c(TRUE, FALSE), 1e8, rep = TRUE)
system.time({
sum(z) # 0.170s
})
system.time({
bit::sum.bit(z) # 0.021s, ~10x improvement in speed
})
I've been doing something similar a few weeks ago. Here's a possible solution, it's written from scratch, so it's kind of beta-release or something like that. I'll try to improve it by removing loops from code...
The main idea is to write a function that will take 2 (or 3) arguments. First one is a data.frame which holds the data gathered from questionnaire, and the second one is a numeric vector with correct answers (this is only applicable for single choice questionnaire). Alternatively, you can add third argument that will return numeric vector with final score, or data.frame with embedded score.
fscore <- function(x, sol, output = 'numeric') {
if (ncol(x) != length(sol)) {
stop('Number of items differs from length of correct answers!')
} else {
inc <- matrix(ncol=ncol(x), nrow=nrow(x))
for (i in 1:ncol(x)) {
inc[,i] <- x[,i] == sol[i]
}
if (output == 'numeric') {
res <- rowSums(inc)
} else if (output == 'data.frame') {
res <- data.frame(x, result = rowSums(inc))
} else {
stop('Type not supported!')
}
}
return(res)
}
I'll try to do this in a more elegant manner with some *ply function. Notice that I didn't put na.rm argument... Will do that
# create dummy data frame - values from 1 to 5
set.seed(100)
d <- as.data.frame(matrix(round(runif(200,1,5)), 10))
# create solution vector
sol <- round(runif(20, 1, 5))
Now apply a function:
> fscore(d, sol)
[1] 6 4 2 4 4 3 3 6 2 6
If you pass data.frame argument, it will return modified data.frame.
I'll try to fix this one... Hope it helps!
I've just had a particular problem where I had to count the number of true statements from a logical vector and this worked best for me...
length(grep(TRUE, (gene.rep.matrix[i,1:6] > 1))) > 5
So This takes a subset of the gene.rep.matrix object, and applies a logical test, returning a logical vector. This vector is put as an argument to grep, which returns the locations of any TRUE entries. Length then calculates how many entries grep finds, thus giving the number of TRUE entries.

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