Permute all unique enumerations of a vector in R

Question

I\'m trying to find a function that will permute all the unique permutations of a vector, while not counting juxtapositions within subsets of the same element type.

Answer 1

EDIT: Here's a faster answer; again based on the ideas of Louisa Grey and Bryce Wagner, but with faster R code thanks to better use of matrix indexing. It's quite a bit faster than my original:

> ffffd <- c(1,0,3,4,1,0,0,3,0,4)
> system.time(up1 <- uniqueperm(d))
   user  system elapsed 
  0.183   0.000   0.186 
> system.time(up2 <- uniqueperm2(d))
   user  system elapsed 
  0.037   0.000   0.038 

And the code:

uniqueperm2 <- function(d) {
  dat <- factor(d)
  N <- length(dat)
  n <- tabulate(dat)
  ng <- length(n)
  if(ng==1) return(d)
  a <- N-c(0,cumsum(n))[-(ng+1)]
  foo <- lapply(1:ng, function(i) matrix(combn(a[i],n[i]),nrow=n[i]))
  out <- matrix(NA, nrow=N, ncol=prod(sapply(foo, ncol)))
  xxx <- c(0,cumsum(sapply(foo, nrow)))
  xxx <- cbind(xxx[-length(xxx)]+1, xxx[-1])
  miss <- matrix(1:N,ncol=1)
  for(i in seq_len(length(foo)-1)) {
    l1 <- foo[[i]]
    nn <- ncol(miss)
    miss <- matrix(rep(miss, ncol(l1)), nrow=nrow(miss))
    k <- (rep(0:(ncol(miss)-1), each=nrow(l1)))*nrow(miss) + 
               l1[,rep(1:ncol(l1), each=nn)]
    out[xxx[i,1]:xxx[i,2],] <- matrix(miss[k], ncol=ncol(miss))
    miss <- matrix(miss[-k], ncol=ncol(miss))
  }
  k <- length(foo)
  out[xxx[k,1]:xxx[k,2],] <- miss
  out <- out[rank(as.numeric(dat), ties="first"),]
  foo <- cbind(as.vector(out), as.vector(col(out)))
  out[foo] <- d
  t(out)
}

It doesn't return the same order, but after sorting, the results are identical.

up1a <- up1[do.call(order, as.data.frame(up1)),]
up2a <- up2[do.call(order, as.data.frame(up2)),]
identical(up1a, up2a)

For my first attempt, see the edit history.