Dear Eric,

Try this:

# First function
f1=function(x,k) c(x,rep(NA,k-length(x)))
x<-c(3,4,5)
f1(x,5)

# Second function
f2=function(x,val){
res=which(x==val,arr.ind=T)
 paste(res,collapse=',',sep='')
}

x<-matrix(1:9,ncol=3)
f2(x,2)


HTH,

Jorge



On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Eric Turkheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I am wondering if it is possible to perform the following two basic
> functions with primitive R functions.  I know I could write functions for
> either, but it seems as though they are probably built-in somewhere.
>
> 1)  Fill out a vector to a desired length with missing values or zeros.
>  So,
>
> x<-c(3,4,5)
> f(x,5)
>
> 3,4,5,NA,NA
>
> 2)  Find the [row,col] location of a particular value in a matrix, eg
>
> x<-matrix(1:9,ncol=3)
>
> f(x,2)
>
> 2,1
>
>
> Thanks.
>
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