I think if you use 'order' it will return the indexes of the array, sorted. Then you can get the original index back because the array will not be changed.
Kevin ---- Peng Jiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear R experts, i have a vector z , i have to do something after z is sorted. how can i find the original index, i.e., before sorting, of a certain element in the sorted vector . thanks in advance regards ----------------------------------------------- Peng Jiang 江鹏 ,Ph.D. Candidate Antai College of Economics & Management 安泰经济管理学院 Department of Mathematics 数学系 Shanghai Jiaotong University (Minhang Campus) 800 Dongchuan Road 200240 Shanghai P. R. China ______________________________________________ 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.
