[R] Efficient way to substract all entries in two vectors from eachother

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

Try this:

 b[which.min(a-b)]

On 07/01/2008, Johannes Graumann <johannes_graumann at web.de> wrote:
> Vectors are numerics. I'd like to know for each a[i], which b[j] delivers
> the smallest abs(a[i]-b[j]).
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Joh
>
> Bert Gunter wrote:
>
> > Vectors of what? How is "closest" defined? See e.g. ?dist
> >
> >
> > Bert Gunter
> > Genentch Nonclinical Statistics
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
> > On Behalf Of Johannes Graumann
> > Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 11:19 AM
> > To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Subject: [R] Efficient way to substract all entries in two vectors from
> > eachother
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm to inexperienced to come up with the matrix solution elusively
> > appearing on the horizon for the following problem and would appreciate if
> > you could give me a nudge ...
> > I have two vectors a, and b and need to find the closest match for each
> > value of a in b.
> > How to do that efficiently?
> >
> > Thanks, Joh
> >
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