[R] location of maximum

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Patrick Buetzberger <patrick at giub.unibe.ch> writes:

> Dear R-users,
> 
> I'm trying to extract the exact location of the maximum value in a
> vector or a matrix, meaning I want not only the maximum itself but also
> at which position (e.g row 6, column 12) it is located.
> I appreciate any suggestions.

To find which element of x is equal to the maximum of x, try

which(x==max(x))

if you want the array index of the maximum of a matrix, use

which(m==max(m), arr.ind=TRUE)

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