Thanks for the answer. Split does not give me the indexes though but only in which group they fall in. I also need the index of the group. Is the first, the second .. group?Alex
On Tuesday, November 3, 2015 5:05 PM, Ista Zahn <istaz...@gmail.com> wrote: Probably split(binDistance, test). Best, Ista On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Alaios via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > Dear all,I am not exactly sure on what is the proper name of what I am trying > to do. > I have a vector that looks like > binDistance > [,1] > [1,] 238.95162 > [2,] 143.08590 > [3,] 88.50923 > [4,] 177.67884 > [5,] 277.54116 > [6,] 342.94689 > [7,] 241.60905 > [8,] 177.81969 > [9,] 211.25559 > [10,] 279.72702 > [11,] 381.95738 > [12,] 483.76363 > [13,] 480.98841 > [14,] 369.75241 > [15,] 267.73650 > [16,] 138.55959 > [17,] 137.93181 > [18,] 184.75200 > [19,] 254.64359 > [20,] 328.87785 > [21,] 273.15577 > [22,] 252.52830 > [23,] 252.52830 > [24,] 252.52830 > [25,] 262.20084 > [26,] 314.93064 > [27,] 366.02996 > [28,] 442.77467 > [29,] 521.20323 > [30,] 465.33071 > [31,] 366.60582 > [32,] 13.69540 > so numbers that start from 13 and go up to maximum 522 (I have also many > other similar sets).I want to put these numbers into 5 categories and thus I > have tried cut > > > Browse[2]> > test<-cut(binDistance,seq(min(binDistance)-0.00001,max(binDistance),length.out=scaleLength+1)) > Browse[2]> test > [1] (217,318] (115,217] (13.7,115] (115,217] (217,318] (318,420] > [7] (217,318] (115,217] (115,217] (217,318] (318,420] (420,521] > [13] (420,521] (318,420] (217,318] (115,217] (115,217] (115,217] > [19] (217,318] (318,420] (217,318] (217,318] (217,318] (217,318] > [25] (217,318] (217,318] (318,420] (420,521] (420,521] (420,521] > [31] (318,420] (13.7,115] > Levels: (13.7,115] (115,217] (217,318] (318,420] (420,521] > > > I want then for the numbers of my initial vector that fall within the same > "category" lets say the (318,420] to be collected on a vector.I rephrase it > the indexes of my initial vector that have a value between 318 to 420 to be > put in a same vector that I can process then as I want. > How I can do that effectively in R? > I would like to thank you for your replyRegardsAlex > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.