Looping in R to extract data - r

I have an object in "R" called p_int. This is a list of 1599 peak intensity numbers.
Within every 8 values of this list is a monoisotopic peak. This peak is the most abundant (largest peak value) compared to the other 7 peaks.
Therefore what I'd like to do is write a loop which processes p_int in batches of 8.
So it will take the first 8 values, find the largest value and add this to a new object called "m_iso".
It will then continue, looking at values 9-16, 17-24, 25-32 etc.
Any advice or code in helping me achieve such a loop would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Stephen.

By 1599 do you actually mean 1600? Because 1599 is not evenly divisible by 8. I'm going to assume this is true and offer the following:
m_iso <- sapply(split(p_int,rep(1:200,each=8)),max)
Or:
m_iso <- apply(matrix(p_int,nrow=8),2,max)
This will give you a vector of maximum values for each set of eight observations.

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The desired output is a dataframe of 20 variables, and 3x10^6 rows. Some columns/variables should be strings, some integers. All in lengths ranging from 2 to 12.
The error isn't coming from sampling 3 million values, it's from trying to create a population of about 90 billion values 1111111111:99999999999 from which to sample. If you want to sample from that range, sample from the range 1:88888888889 and add 11111111110 using
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Count duration of value in vector in R

I am trying to count the length of occurrances of a value in a vector such as
q <- c(1,1,1,1,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,1,4,4,4)
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I have a list like this:
A B score
B C score
A C score
......
where the first two columns contain the variable name and third column contains the score between both. Total number of variables is 250,000 (A,B,C....). And the score is a float [0,1]. The file is approximately 50 GB. And the pairs of A,B where scores are 1, have been removed as more than half the entries were 1.
I wanted to perform hierarchical clustering on the data.
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I'm clueless with this. Please help!
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Your input data already is the matrix.
However hierarchical clustering usually scales O(n^3). That won't work with your data sets size. Plus, they usually need more than one copy of the matrix. You may need 1TB of RAM then... 2*8*250000*250000is a lot.
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I have a number of fishing boat tracks, and I'm trying to detect a certain pattern in their movement using R. In doing so I have reached a point where I have discarded all points of the track where the desired pattern is not occurring within a given time window, and I'm left with the remaining georeferenced points. These points have a score value associated, which measures the 'intensity' of the desired pattern.
track_1[1:10,]:
LAT LON SCORE
1 32.34855 -35.49264 80.67
2 31.54764 -35.58691 18.14
3 31.38293 -35.25243 46.70
4 31.21447 -35.25830 22.65
5 30.76365 -35.38881 11.93
6 30.75872 -35.54733 22.97
7 30.60261 -35.95472 35.98
8 30.62818 -36.27024 31.09
9 31.35912 -35.73573 14.97
10 31.15218 -36.38027 37.60
The code bellow provides the same data
data.frame(cbind(
LAT=c(32.34855,31.54764,31.38293,31.21447,30.76365,30.75872,30.60261,30.62818,31.35912,31.15218),
LON=c(-35.49264,-35.58691,-35.25243,-35.25830,-35.38881,-35.54733,-35.95472,-36.27024,-35.73573,-36.38027),
SCORE=c(80.67,18.14,46.70,22.65,11.93,22.97,35.98,31.09,14.97,37.60)))
Because some of these points occur geographically close to each other I need to 'pool' their scores together. Hence, I now need a way to throw this data into some kind of a spatial grid and cumulatively sum the scores of all points that fall in the same cell of the grid. This would allow me to find in what areas a given fishing boat exhibits the pattern I'm after the most (and this is not just about time spent in one place). Ultimately, the preferred output would contain lat and lon for every grid cell (center), and the sum of all scores on each cell. In addition, I would also like to be able to adjust the sizing of the grid cells.
I've looked around and all I can find either does not preserve the georeferenced information, is very inefficient, or performs binning of data. There may already be some answers out there, but it might be the case that I'm not able to recognize them since I'm a bit out of my league on this stuff. Can someone please point me to some direction (package, function, etc.)? Any guidance will be greatly appreciated.
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Example:
latScale <- 2 # one cell for every 0.5 degrees
lonScale <- 2 # likewise
track_1$cell <- factor(with(track_1,
paste(floor(LAT*latScale), floor(LON*lonScale), sep='.')))
library(plyr)
ddply(track_1, .(cell), summarize,
LAT=mean(LAT), LON=mean(LON), SCORE=sum(SCORE))
If you want to, you can use weighted.mean instead of mean. If you don't like these factors, you can put more effort in making them nice (e.g. by using compass directions instead of signs), or drop them altogether and use a pair of integer columns instead.

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