You may want to consider using eurodist in matrix form. As in, ED <- as.matrix(eurodist)
Then you could manipulate the matrix using standard or homemade functions, like this one: max.matrix <- function(A) { column <- ceiling(which.max(A)/nrow(A)) row <- which.max(A) - (column-1)*nrow(A) A[row,column,drop=FALSE] } max.matrix(ED) which gives the following output: Athens Lisbon 4532 As for your other issue, using the matrix form also works: rowSums(ED) Hope that helps. -tgs On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:23 AM, lgpeco <badblueb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ## i have one question anouth this package.. > library(datasets) > eurodist > ## if i type this i get max distance between european cities > > max(eurodist) > [1] 4532 > ## but i would like get something like this: 4532 Gilbratar - Anthens > ## and another one.. > ## if a live in barcelona and i would like travel in all cities > ## how can i get sum of all distance to other cities... i try > sapply(eurodist["Barcelona"], sum) > ## and rowSums(eurodist["Barcelona",]) and it doesn't working.. tnx for > helping ;) > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/library-datasets-tp3050497p3050497.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.