[R] non-consing count

[David Winsemius]

   On Jan 4, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Sam Steingold wrote:

     Hi,

     to count vector elements with some property, the standard idiom seems to

     be length(which):

     --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---

     x <- c(1,1,0,0,0)

     count.0 <- length(which(x == 0))

     --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

     however, this approach allocates and discards 2 vectors: a logical

     vector of length=length(x) and an integer vector in which.

     is there a cheaper alternative?

   I don't know if it is "cheaper", but the way I "learned to count" was:
   sum(x==8, na.rm=TRUE)
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   David Winsemius
   Alameda, CA, USA