# Speeding up nested for-loop analysis code

I have two matrices, the first one is mat 2000*500, the second one is 6000*500 tep I did this code for some analysis to get another matrix that has a specific elements.

Problem is : This code is very very slow, I need to make faster.Any suggestion to do so is welcome

mat=matrix(sample(c(0,1,2),200,replace =T),nrow=500,ncol=2000)
tep =matrix(rnorm(200,5,2),nrow=500,ncol=6000)


The code is trying to create one matrix (500 row by 2000 col). Its elements depend on the following : Let the new matrix is A .

if mat[1,1] = 0 then A[1,1]=tep[1,1]/(sum(tep[1,1:3]))
if mat[1,1] = 1 then A[1,1]=tep[1,2]/(sum(tep[1,1:3]))
if mat[1,1] = 2 then A[1,1]=tep[1,3]/(sum(tep[1,1:3]))
if mat[1,2] = 0 then A[1,2]=tep[1,4]/(sum(tep[1,4:6]))
if mat[1,2] = 1 then A[1,2]=tep[1,5]/(sum(tep[1,4:6]))
if mat[1,2] = 2 then A[1,2]=tep[1,6]/(sum(tep[1,4:6]))
......


and so on.. The one column in mat is corresponding to three columns in tep. Every three values in three columns in matrix tep at a j row is a group we calculate from each group there will be one value according to the example above, so we will end up with a 500 row by 2000 column matrix.

allele=c(0,1,2)
A=matrix(nrow=500,ncol=2000)
start=seq(1,6000,3)
for(k in 1:500){
for(i in 1:2000){
for(j in start){
temp.z= mat[k,i]
temp.pl=tep[k,j:(j+2)]
loc=which(allele==temp.z)
temp.pl=temp.pl[loc]/(sum(temp.pl))
A[k,i]=temp.pl
rm(temp.pl,temp.z,loc)

}
}
}

• Your explanation is not very clear. Maybe you could rewrite it a bit. Also, the code at the end does not seem to modify A, which I think is what you are trying to compute. – toto2 Oct 22 '14 at 0:06

Try the following:

mat0 <- tep[, c(TRUE, FALSE, FALSE)]
mat1 <- tep[, c(FALSE, TRUE, FALSE)]
mat2 <- tep[, c(FALSE, FALSE, TRUE)]

denominator <- mat0 + mat1 + mat2
numerator   <- mat0 * (mat - 1) * (mat - 2) / (0 - 1) / (0 - 2) +
mat1 * (mat - 0) * (mat - 2) / (1 - 0) / (1 - 2) +
mat2 * (mat - 0) * (mat - 1) / (2 - 0) / (2 - 1)

A <- numerator / denominator