I am trying to figure out how to create a loop that will take the
difference of each member of a vector from each other and also spit out
which one has the least difference.
I do not want the vector member to subtract from itself or it must be able
to disregard the 0 obtained from subtracting from itself.
For example:
x = c(17,19,23,29)
1. abs(x-x[1]) = (0, 2, 6, 12)
2. abs(x-x[2]) = (2, 0, 4, 10)
3. abs(x-x[3]) = (6, 4, 0, 6)
4. abs(x-x[4]) = (12, 10, 6, 0)
The code would then spit out that x[1] and x[2] are the least different,
but if there were 2 separate values that were equal the program would
recognize them as least different.
A little extra help would be to also make this go down row by row through
horizontal vectors.
I am new to R and all my for loops I'm trying come back null.
Thanks for any help.
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