Quite right, there is an optional 4th argument, and the table must be sorted ascending on the first column in Excel. Thus these functions only approximately duplicate the Excel functions (improve on them IMHO).
BTW, I pasted the wrong formula in my reply; though it works, simpler is ID <- 4 #for example, find value corresponding to 4 x[x[,1]==ID,2] Ben -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Winsemius Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PS] Re: [R] vlookup in R Sachin J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Is there are function similar to excel vlookup in R. Please let me > know. > Caveat: definition of VLOOKUP done from memory and by checking OO.o Calc function of same name. (Don't have Excel on this machine.) VLOOKUP looks up a single value in the first column of an Excel range and returns a column value (offset by a given integer) from the first matching row in that "range". The indexing functions ("extract" or "[" ) can be used: > df4 V1 V2 V3 1 4.56 1 0.1 2 8.42 1 0.2 3 0.79 3 0.3 4 5.39 3 0.4 5 0.95 4 0.5 6 7.73 5 0.6 7 7.17 6 0.7 8 3.89 7 0.8 9 0.54 10 1.0 10 9.53 9 0.9 > df4[df4$V1==0.79,2] [1] 3 vlookup <- function(val, df, row){ df[df[1] == val, row][1] } > vlookup(0.79, df4, 2) [1] 3 I thought there was an optional 4th argument to VLOOKUP that specifies the action to be taken if there is no exact match. You may need to change the equality in that function to an inequality and identify the first column value that is less than or equal to "val". If I remember correctly, Excel assumes that the first column is ordered ascending. -- David Winsemius ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
