Vectors of what? How is "closest" defined? See e.g. ?dist
Bert Gunter Genentch Nonclinical Statistics -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johannes Graumann Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 11:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] Efficient way to substract all entries in two vectors from eachother Hi all, I'm to inexperienced to come up with the matrix solution elusively appearing on the horizon for the following problem and would appreciate if you could give me a nudge ... I have two vectors a, and b and need to find the closest match for each value of a in b. How to do that efficiently? Thanks, Joh ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
