How's this?
f2 <- function(v) {
n <- length(v)
s <- matrix(0,n,n)
for(i in 1:n)
for(j in 1:i)
s[j,i] <- ifelse(i>1, s[j,i-1]+v[i]*ifelse(j>1, s[j-1,i-1], 1),
v[i])
c(1,s[,n])
}
> system.time(f2.result <- f2(1:20))
user system elapsed
0 0 0 > system.time(f.result <- f(1:20))
user system elapsed
29.50 0.04 29.58 > all.equal(f.result, f2.result)
[1] TRUE
-- David Reiner
-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
On Behalf Of Austin H. Jones
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:11 PM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] Elementary Symmetric Polynomials
We are interested in obtaining an efficient function that for a given
vector of length t will output a vector of length t+1 that contains the
associated values of the elementary symmetric polynomials in t
variables. Below is what we have at the moment, but it is a little slow
for our needs. Any suggestions?
Thanks ahead of time for any help you can offer,
Austin H. Jones
Department of Mathematics
Wake Forest University
f<-function(v)
{
prodsub<-function(v,q){prod(v[q])}
t<-length(v)
C<-vector("list",t)
for (i in 1:t)
{C[[i]]<-combn(1:t,i)}
e<-rep(0,t)
for (i in 1:(t))
{
e[i]<-sum(apply(C[[i]],2,prodsub,v=v))
}
e<-c(1,e)
e
}
Examples:
> f(c(1,2,3))
[1] 1 6 11 6
> f(c(4,6,3,1,9))
[1] 1 23 193 729 1206 648
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