slice.index {base} R Documentation

## Slice Indexes in an Array

### Description

Returns a matrix of integers indicating the number of their slice in a given array.

### Usage

slice.index(x, MARGIN)


### Arguments

 x an array. If x has no dimension attribute, it is considered a one-dimensional array. MARGIN an integer vector giving the dimension numbers to slice by.

### Details

If MARGIN gives a single dimension, then all elements of slice number i with respect to this have value i. In general, slice numbers are obtained by numbering all combinations of indices in the dimensions given by MARGIN in column-major order. I.e., with m_1, ..., m_k the dimension numbers (elements of MARGIN) sliced by and d_{m_1}, ..., d_{m_k} the corresponding extents, and n_1 = 1, n_2 = d_{m_1}, ..., n_k = d_{m_1} \cdots d_{m_{k-1}}, the number of the slice where dimension m_1 has value i_1, ..., dimension m_k has value i_k is 1 + n_1 (i_1 - 1) + \cdots + n_k (i_k - 1).

### Value

An integer array y with dimensions corresponding to those of x.

row and col for determining row and column indexes; in fact, these are special cases of slice.index corresponding to MARGIN equal to 1 and 2, respectively when x is a matrix.

### Examples

x <- array(1 : 24, c(2, 3, 4))
slice.index(x, 2)
slice.index(x, c(1, 3))
## When slicing by dimensions 1 and 3, slice index 5 is obtained for
## dimension 1 has value 1 and dimension 3 has value 3 (see above):
which(slice.index(x, c(1, 3)) == 5, arr.ind = TRUE)


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