Possible combinations of a matrix in R

Question

I have a data frame as

df <- data.frame(x = c(1,2,3,4,5), y = c(11,12,13,14,15))

What I am trying to get is this

It basically is all the possible combinations of the data frame. I tried combn and expand.grid but they give me all possible combinations, not all possible combinations taken two at a time. I also tried looping it but the subsetting always goes for a toss.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

We can sequence by the pairs with an sapply iteration. Then binding the vectors with the index:

df <- data.frame(x = c(1,2,3,4,5), y = c(11,12,13,14,15))
s <- seq(length(df$x))
d2 <- unlist(sapply(s, seq, to=max(s)))
cbind.data.frame(x=df$x[d2], y=df$y[d2])
#    x  y
# 1  1 11
# 2  2 12
# 3  3 13
# 4  4 14
# 5  5 15
# 6  2 12
# 7  3 13
# 8  4 14
# 9  5 15
# 10 3 13
# 11 4 14
# 12 5 15
# 13 4 14
# 14 5 15
# 15 5 15

Possible combinations of a matrix in R

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