[R] Find the closest value in a list or matrix

[Tobias Verbeke]

Daniel Malter wrote:

> x=c(1:100)
> your.number=5.43
> which(abs(x-your.number)==min(abs(x-your.number)))

or [depending on the problem]:

which.min(abs(x-your.number))

HTH,
Tobias

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> I have a long list of numbers [3.4,5.4,3.67,....], and I basically want to
> find the index of the number closest to this number that I have, let's say
> 5.43. How would I do this without writing a for loop (I have to do this many
> times for several lists)? Is there a "lookup" function in R? 
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