Re: [R] Calculating Minimum Absolute Difference of Two Numeric Vectors

2020-08-18 Thread PIKAL Petr
"-"))== mm, arr.ind=TRUE)[2]] Cheers Petr > -Original Message- > From: R-help On Behalf Of Dario Strbenac > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 9:00 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Calculating Minimum Absolute Difference of Two Numeric Vectors > > Good da

Re: [R] Calculating Minimum Absolute Difference of Two Numeric Vectors

2020-08-18 Thread Jeff Newmiller
This looks more like a code challenge than a real problem, but anyway Rcpp seems unnecessary. x <- (2:5)^2/3 y <- (1:6)+0.1 ad <- function( a, b ) { abs( a - b ) } M <- outer( x, y, FUN=ad ) which( M==min(M), arr.ind = TRUE ) On August 18, 2020 12:00:09 AM PDT, Dario Strbenac wrote: >Good da

[R] Calculating Minimum Absolute Difference of Two Numeric Vectors

2020-08-18 Thread Dario Strbenac
Good day, What is a fast and efficient way to calculate the minimum absolute difference between two vectors of numbers? The two vectors have unequal length. I would also like to know the index of the first vector and the second vector which results in the minimum absolute difference. For exampl