使用 purrr (tidyverse) 跨数据帧的所有列映射距离函数

Using purrr (tidyverse) to map distance function across all columns of dataframe

我有一个距离函数,它接受 2 个(数字)向量并计算它们之间的距离。

对于下面示例中的给定数据框 (mtcars_raw) 和固定输入向量 (test_vec),我想计算每列的成对距离(即应用距离函数) test_vec 和 return 距离向量。向量的长度应该是列数。

请查看可重现的示例:


library(datasets)

# The raw dataframe containing only numeric columns
mtcars_raw <- datasets::mtcars

# The distance function between 2 vectors (of the same length typically)
eucl_dist <- function(x, y){
    return(sqrt(sum((x-y)^2)))
}

# An example of a numeric vector to check the distance against each column
test_vec   <- rnorm(n = dim(mtcars_raw)[1], mean = 12, sd = 2)

# Manually for the first column, we would have:
dist_1 <- eucl_dist(x = test_vec, mtcars_raw[, 1])
dist_1
#> [1] 58.71256

# Manually for the second column, we would have:
dist_2 <- eucl_dist(x = test_vec, mtcars_raw[, 1])
dist_2
#> [1] 58.71256

# Would like dist_comb returned for all columns without having to manually do
# the combining
dist_comb <- c(dist_1, dist_2)
dist_comb
#> [1] 58.71256 58.71256

任何人都可以在 mtcars_raw 和 test_vec 的每一列上向 return 向量显示 purrr (tidyverse) 代码吗?

使用 map_dbl,这是 map 的一个特例来遍历列,但显式 return 双类型向量:

map_dbl(mtcars_raw[1:2], ~ eucl_dist(test_vec, .x))

#     mpg      cyl 
#58.06386 36.51686 

在所有列上:

map_dbl(mtcars_raw, ~ eucl_dist(test_vec, .x))

#       mpg        cyl       disp         hp       drat         wt       qsec         vs         am       gear       carb 
#  58.06386   36.51686 1414.98943  850.71261   49.72837   51.74005   35.50658   67.25079   67.35504   49.34896   54.56577