The 'better way' to do almost anything starts with a reading of the
_posting guide_, which reminds you to
Do your homework before posting [Reasons whyfor deleted]]
* Do help.search("keyword") and apropos("keyword") with different
keywords (type this at the R prompt).
[other homework items deleted]
So, to start with you would have tried:
help.search('distance')
HA! This leads to
dist {stats} Distance Matrix Computation
Well, doesn't that sound promising??
alldist3 <- as.matrix( dist( cv ) )
which( alldist3 == max( alldist3 ), arr.ind=TRUE )
Oh yes, if you are too lazy to look up the posting guide URL, the function
help.request() will open it for you when you admit that you haven't yet
read it (or lead you thru the further steps to prepare a question to this
list if you say that you have read it).
HTH,
Chuck
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Carl Witthoft wrote:
I was playing around a bit to see how I could find the two points in a set of
points (or ordered pairs) furthest from each other.
Here's what I did:
1) created a Nrow by 2col matrix, so each row contains an x,y coordinate
pair.
2) fed the matrix to a nested mapply (cv is my matrix):
mapply(function(k,l) mapply(function(x,y,a,b)
+ sqrt((x-a)^2+(y-b)^2),cv[,1],cv[,2],k,l),cv[,1],cv[,2])->alldist
Then I just did which.max(alldist) and found the original two points by
figuring out what row, col the results of which.max referred to.
So, what's a better, or cleaner way to do all this? That is, is there a
function in some package that will do anything like my nested mapply thing,
and is there a better tool than which.max for locating a position in a
matrix?
thanks
Carl
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