Re: [R] vectorial search for elements with certain attributes

2011-05-19 Thread William Dunlap
> -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Murphy > Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 11:38 AM > To: infoc...@gmx.net > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] vectorial search for elements wi

Re: [R] vectorial search for elements with certain attributes

2011-05-19 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: Here's one possible approach: A <- c(1,3,7,8,10) B <- c(5,8) apply(outer(A, B, '-'), 2, function(x) min(which(x >= 0))) [1] 3 4 HTH, Dennis On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:58 AM, wrote: > I have 2 vectors A and B. For each element of B I'd like to find the index of > the next higher or equal e

[R] vectorial search for elements with certain attributes

2011-05-19 Thread infochat
I have 2 vectors A and B. For each element of B I'd like to find the index of the next higher or equal element in A. And I'd like to store it effectiv. E.g.: A <- c(1,3,7,8,10) B <- c(5,8) result: 3, 4 I have a possibility but for long vectors it works not very effectiv: ans <- sapply(B, functi