We begin by defining the lookup matrices. I've laid them out in a way
that should make them easier to check against a reference, e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verhoeff_algorithm.
d5_mult <- matrix(as.integer(c(
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
1, 2, 3, 4, 0, 6, 7, 8, 9, 5,
2, 3, 4, 0, 1, 7, 8, 9, 5, 6,
3, 4, 0, 1, 2, 8, 9, 5, 6, 7,
4, 0, 1, 2, 3, 9, 5, 6, 7, 8,
5, 9, 8, 7, 6, 0, 4, 3, 2, 1,
6, 5, 9, 8, 7, 1, 0, 4, 3, 2,
7, 6, 5, 9, 8, 2, 1, 0, 4, 3,
8, 7, 6, 5, 9, 3, 2, 1, 0, 4,
9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0
)), ncol = 10, byrow = TRUE)
d5_perm <- matrix(as.integer(c(
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
1, 5, 7, 6, 2, 8, 3, 0, 9, 4,
5, 8, 0, 3, 7, 9, 6, 1, 4, 2,
8, 9, 1, 6, 0, 4, 3, 5, 2, 7,
9, 4, 5, 3, 1, 2, 6, 8, 7, 0,
4, 2, 8, 6, 5, 7, 3, 9, 0, 1,
2, 7, 9, 3, 8, 0, 6, 4, 1, 5,
7, 0, 4, 6, 9, 1, 3, 2, 5, 8
)), ncol = 10, byrow = TRUE)
d5_inv <- as.integer(c(0, 4, 3, 2, 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9))
Next, we'll define the check function, and try it out with a test input.
I've followed the derivation in wikipedia as closely as possible.
p <- function(i, n_i) {
d5_perm[(i %% 8) + 1, n_i + 1] + 1
}
d <- function(c, p) {
d5_mult[c + 1, p]
}
verhoeff <- function(x) {
#split and convert to numbers
digs <- strsplit(as.character(x), "")[[1]]
digs <- as.numeric(digs)
digs <- rev(digs) ## right to left algorithm
## apply algoritm - note 1-based indexing in R
c <- 0
for (i in 1:length(digs)) {
c <- d(c, p(i, digs[i]))
}
d5_inv[c + 1]
}
verhoeff(142857)
## [1] 0
This function is fundamentally iterative, as each iteration depends on
the value of the previous. This means that we're unlikely to be able to
vectorise in R, so if we want to vectorise, we'll need to use Rcpp.
However, before we turn to that, it's worth exploring if we can do the
initial split faster. First we do a little microbenchmark to see if it's
worth bothering:
library(microbenchmark)
digits <- function(x) {
digs <- strsplit(as.character(x), "")[[1]]
digs <- as.numeric(digs)
rev(digs)
}
microbenchmark(
digits(142857),
verhoeff(142857)
)
## Unit: microseconds
## expr min lq median uq max neval
## digits(142857) 11.30 12.01 12.43 12.85 28.79 100
## verhoeff(142857) 32.24 33.81 34.66 35.47 95.85 100
It looks like it! On my computer, verhoeff_prepare() accounts for
about 50% of the run time. A little searching on stackoverflow reveals
another approach to turning a number into
digits:
digits2 <- function(x) {
n <- floor(log10(x))
x %/% 10^(0:n) %% 10
}
digits2(12345)
## [1] 5 4 3 2 1
microbenchmark(
digits(142857),
digits2(142857)
)
## Unit: microseconds
## expr min lq median uq max neval
## digits(142857) 11.495 12.102 12.468 12.834 79.60 100
## digits2(142857) 2.322 2.784 3.358 3.561 13.69 100
digits2() is a lot faster than digits() but it has limited impact on
the whole runtime.
verhoeff2 <- function(x) {
digs <- digits2(x)
c <- 0
for (i in 1:length(digs)) {
c <- d(c, p(i, digs[i]))
}
d5_inv[c + 1]
}
verhoeff2(142857)
## [1] 0
microbenchmark(
verhoeff(142857),
verhoeff2(142857)
)
## Unit: microseconds
## expr min lq median uq max neval
## verhoeff(142857) 33.06 34.49 35.19 35.92 73.38 100
## verhoeff2(142857) 20.98 22.58 24.05 25.28 48.69 100
To make it even faster we could try C++.
#include <Rcpp.h>
using namespace Rcpp;
// [[Rcpp::export]]
int verhoeff3_c(IntegerVector digits, IntegerMatrix mult, IntegerMatrix perm,
IntegerVector inv) {
int n = digits.size();
int c = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
int p = perm(i % 8, digits[i]);
c = mult(c, p);
}
return inv[c];
}
verhoeff3 <- function(x) {
verhoeff3_c(digits(x), d5_mult, d5_perm, d5_inv)
}
verhoeff3(142857)
## [1] 3
microbenchmark(
verhoeff2(142857),
verhoeff3(142857)
)
## Unit: microseconds
## expr min lq median uq max neval
## verhoeff2(142857) 21.00 22.85 25.53 27.11 63.71 100
## verhoeff3(142857) 16.75 17.99 18.87 19.64 79.54 100
That doesn't yield much of an improvement. Maybe we can do better if we
pass the number to C++ and process the digits in a loop:
#include <Rcpp.h>
using namespace Rcpp;
// [[Rcpp::export]]
int verhoeff4_c(int number, IntegerMatrix mult, IntegerMatrix perm,
IntegerVector inv) {
int c = 0;
int i = 0;
for (int i = 0; number > 0; ++i, number /= 10) {
int p = perm(i % 8, number % 10);
c = mult(c, p);
}
return inv[c];
}
verhoeff4 <- function(x) {
verhoeff4_c(x, d5_mult, d5_perm, d5_inv)
}
verhoeff4(142857)
## [1] 3
microbenchmark(
verhoeff2(142857),
verhoeff3(142857),
verhoeff4(142857)
)
## Unit: microseconds
## expr min lq median uq max neval
## verhoeff2(142857) 21.808 24.910 26.838 27.797 64.22 100
## verhoeff3(142857) 17.699 18.742 19.599 20.764 81.67 100
## verhoeff4(142857) 3.143 3.797 4.095 4.396 13.21 100
And we get a pay off: verhoeff4() is about 5 times faster than
verhoeff2().
