[R] Thanks!

Petr PIKAL petr.pikal at precheza.cz
Thu Jul 10 12:12:41 CEST 2008


Hi

You can try the intro book by Peter Dalgaard and I found useful also 
R-tips (statsRus), You can find it through google.

Regards
Petr 

r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 10.07.2008 06:25:36:

> 
> Thanks! I'll use the which.min function. I've been learning R from the 
pdfs
> on the CRAN website, but I find the texts to be generally introductory, 
not
> comprehensive, and focused on one niche purpose. Can anyone suggest a 
good
> self-teach guide?
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> 
> R_Learner wrote:
> > 
> > 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? 
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> 
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