Yes, but outer() does the job more simply. Use S-plus built-in functionality
first.
Bert Gunter
Biometrics Research
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> On Friday, March 27, 1998 at 11:31:22 am CET,
> <suobs@verinet.com> wrote:
> >Is there a simple way to obtain the products of all possible pairs of
> >values that are in a data frame column?
> >
> >Steve Bousquin
>
> Steve,
>
> Yes, there is a more efficient way; one which also avoids the dreaded
> "expressions nested beyond limit" error:
>
> > z <- 1:10
> > which <- combn2(n = length(z))
> > z[which[,1]] * z[which[,2]]
> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 12 15 18 21 24 27
> 30
> 20
> [26] 24 28 32 36 40 30 35 40 45 50 42 48 54 60 56 63 70 72 80 90
>
> This uses a general strategy that, as often heard on this list, often is
> preferable in S-PLUS to the use of loops or recursion: first expand the
> vector by subscripting and then form all the products "at once" using
> vectorized computation.
>
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