... and just for fun, here is a non-string version (more appropriate for
complex state labels??):
gvec <- function(ntimes, states, init, final, repeats = TRUE)
## ntimes: integer, number of unique times
## states: vector of unique states
## init: initial state
## final: final state
{
out <- cbind(init,
as.matrix(expand.grid(rep(list(states),ntimes -2 ))),final)
if(!repeats)
out[ apply(out,1,\(x)all(x[-1] != x[-ntimes])), ]
else out
}
yielding:
> gvec(4, letters[1:5], "b", "e", repeats = TRUE)
init Var1 Var2 final
[1,] "b" "a" "a" "e"
[2,] "b" "b" "a" "e"
[3,] "b" "c" "a" "e"
[4,] "b" "d" "a" "e"
[5,] "b" "e" "a" "e"
[6,] "b" "a" "b" "e"
[7,] "b" "b" "b" "e"
[8,] "b" "c" "b" "e"
[9,] "b" "d" "b" "e"
[10,] "b" "e" "b" "e"
[11,] "b" "a" "c" "e"
[12,] "b" "b" "c" "e"
[13,] "b" "c" "c" "e"
[14,] "b" "d" "c" "e"
[15,] "b" "e" "c" "e"
[16,] "b" "a" "d" "e"
[17,] "b" "b" "d" "e"
[18,] "b" "c" "d" "e"
[19,] "b" "d" "d" "e"
[20,] "b" "e" "d" "e"
[21,] "b" "a" "e" "e"
[22,] "b" "b" "e" "e"
[23,] "b" "c" "e" "e"
[24,] "b" "d" "e" "e"
[25,] "b" "e" "e"
"e">
> gvec(4, letters[1:5], "b", "e", repeats = FALSE)
init Var1 Var2 final
[1,] "b" "c" "a" "e"
[2,] "b" "d" "a" "e"
[3,] "b" "e" "a" "e"
[4,] "b" "a" "b" "e"
[5,] "b" "c" "b" "e"
[6,] "b" "d" "b" "e"
[7,] "b" "e" "b" "e"
[8,] "b" "a" "c" "e"
[9,] "b" "d" "c" "e"
[10,] "b" "e" "c" "e"
[11,] "b" "a" "d" "e"
[12,] "b" "c" "d" "e"
[13,] "b" "e" "d" "e"
:-)
-- Bert
On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 2:04?PM Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Well, if strings with repeats (as you defined them) are to be excluded, I
> think it's simple just to use regular expressions to remove them.
>
> e.g.
> g <- function(ntimes, states, init, final, repeats = TRUE)
> ## ntimes: integer, number of unique times
> ## states: vector of unique states
> ## init: initial state
> ## final: final state
> {
> out <- do.call(paste0,c(init,expand.grid(rep(list(states), ntimes-2)),
> final))
> if(!repeats)
> out[-grep(paste(paste0(states,states), collapse = "|"),out)]
> else out
> }
> So:
>
> > g(4, LETTERS[1:5], "B", "E", repeats = FALSE)
> [1] "BCAE" "BDAE" "BEAE" "BABE"
"BCBE" "BDBE" "BEBE" "BACE"
> [9] "BDCE" "BECE" "BADE" "BCDE"
"BEDE"
>
> Perhaps not the most efficient way to do this, of course.
>
> Cheers,
> Bert
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 12:57?PM Eric Berger <ericjberger at
gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My initial response was buggy and also used a deprecated function.
>> Also, it seems possible that one may want to rule out any strings where
>> the same state appears consecutively.
>> I say that such a string has a repeat.
>>
>> myExpand <- function(v, n) {
>> do.call(tidyr::expand_grid, replicate(n, v, simplify = FALSE))
>> }
>>
>> no_repeat <- function(s) {
>> v <- unlist(strsplit(s, NULL))
>> sum(v[-1]==v[-length(v)]) == 0
>> }
>>
>> f <- function(states, nsteps, first, last, rm_repeat=TRUE) {
>> if (nsteps < 3) stop("nsteps must be at least 3")
>> out <- paste(first,
>> myExpand(states, nsteps-2) |>
>> apply(MAR=1, \(x) paste(x, collapse="")),
>> last, sep="")
>> if (rm_repeat) {
>> ok <- sapply(out, no_repeat)
>> out <- out[ok]
>> }
>> out
>> }
>>
>> f(LETTERS[1:5],4,"B","E")
>>
>> # [1] "BABE" "BACE" "BADE"
"BCAE" "BCBE" "BCDE" "BDAE"
"BDBE" "BDCE"
>> "BEAE" "BEBE" "BECE" "BEDE"
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 10:33?PM Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at
gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, my last line should have read:
>>>
>>> If neither this nor any of the other suggestions is what is
desired, I
>>> think the OP will have to clarify his query.
>>>
>>> Bert
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 12:31?PM Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at
gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think there may be some uncertainty here about what the OP
requested.
>>>> My interpretation is:
>>>>
>>>> n different times
>>>> k different states
>>>> Any state can appear at any time in the vector of times and can
be
>>>> repeated
>>>> Initial and final states are given
>>>>
>>>> So modifying Tim's expand.grid() solution a bit yields:
>>>>
>>>> g <- function(ntimes, states, init, final){
>>>> ## ntimes: integer, number of unique times
>>>> ## states: vector of unique states
>>>> ## init: initial state
>>>> ## final: final state
>>>> do.call(paste0,c(init,expand.grid(rep(list(states), ntimes-2)),
final))
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> e.g.
>>>>
>>>> > g(4, LETTERS[1:5], "B", "D")
>>>> [1] "BAAD" "BBAD" "BCAD"
"BDAD" "BEAD" "BABD" "BBBD"
"BCBD"
>>>> [9] "BDBD" "BEBD" "BACD"
"BBCD" "BCCD" "BDCD" "BECD"
"BADD"
>>>> [17] "BBDD" "BCDD" "BDDD"
"BEDD" "BAED" "BBED" "BCED"
"BDED"
>>>> [25] "BEED"
>>>>
>>>> If neither this nor any of the other suggestions is not what is
>>>> desired, I think the OP will have to clarify his query.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Bert
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 9:25?AM Ebert,Timothy Aaron <tebert
at ufl.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Does this work for you?
>>>>>
>>>>> t0<-t1<-t2<-LETTERS[1:5]
>>>>> al2<-expand.grid(t0, t1, t2)
>>>>> al3<-paste(al2$Var1, al2$Var2, al2$Var3)
>>>>> al4 <- gsub(" ", "", al3)
>>>>> head(al3)
>>>>>
>>>>> Tim
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: R-help <r-help-bounces at r-project.org> On
Behalf Of Eric Berger
>>>>> Sent: Monday, September 4, 2023 10:17 AM
>>>>> To: Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christofer at
gmail.com>
>>>>> Cc: r-help <r-help at r-project.org>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [R] Finding combination of states
>>>>>
>>>>> [External Email]
>>>>>
>>>>> The function purrr::cross() can help you with this. For
example:
>>>>>
>>>>> f <- function(states, nsteps, first, last) {
>>>>> paste(first,
unlist(lapply(purrr::cross(rep(list(v),nsteps-2)),
>>>>> \(x) paste(unlist(x), collapse=""))), last,
sep="") } f(LETTERS[1:5],
>>>>> 3, "B", "E") [1] "BAE"
"BBE" "BCE" "BDE" "BEE"
>>>>>
>>>>> HTH,
>>>>> Eric
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 3:42?PM Christofer Bogaso <
>>>>> bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Let say I have 3 time points.as T0, T1, and T2.(number
of such time
>>>>> > points can be arbitrary) In each time point, an object
can be any of
>>>>> 5
>>>>> > states, A, B, C, D, E (number of such states can be
arbitrary)
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I need to find all possible ways, how that object
starting with state
>>>>> > B (say) at time T0, can be on state E (example) in
time T2
>>>>> >
>>>>> > For example one possibility is BAE etc.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Is there any function available with R, that can give
me a vector of
>>>>> > such possibilities for arbitrary number of states,
time, and for a
>>>>> > given initial and final (desired) states?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > ANy pointer will be very appreciated.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Thanks for your time.
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