[R] Finding Coordinate of Max/Min Value in a Data Frame

[Gundala Viswanath]

Thanks so much both.

- Gundala

On 6/11/08, Henrique Dallazuanna <wwwhsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Try this:
>
> which(pca == min(pca), arr.ind = TRUE)
> which(pca == max(pca), arr.ind = TRUE)
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Gundala Viswanath <gundalav at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Suppose I have the following data frame.
> >
> > __BEGIN__
> >
> > > library(MASS)
> > > data(crabs)
> > > crab.pca <- prcomp(crabs[,4:8],retx=TRUE)
> > > crab.pca$rotation
> >         PC1        PC2        PC3        PC4        PC5
> > FL 0.2889810  0.3232500 -0.5071698  0.7342907  0.1248816
> > RW 0.1972824  0.8647159  0.4141356 -0.1483092 -0.1408623
> > CL 0.5993986 -0.1982263 -0.1753299 -0.1435941 -0.7416656
> > CW 0.6616550 -0.2879790  0.4913755  0.1256282  0.4712202
> > BD 0.2837317  0.1598447 -0.5468821 -0.6343657  0.4386868
> >
> > __END__
> >
> > Is there a way to identify the "coordinate" of a max/min value of all the
> > points above.
> >
> > For example the coord of maximum value is (RW,PC2) = 0.865,
> > and coord of min value is (CW,PC2) = - 0.288.
> >
> > --
> > Gundala Viswanath
> >
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>
> --
> Henrique Dallazuanna
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-- 
Gundala Viswanath