[R] Row number of minimum value?

MikSmith mike at hsm.org.uk
Sun May 17 12:24:55 CEST 2009


Hi Adrian

Many thanks. That works perfectly! It's easy when you know the answer :)

mike


Adrian Dusa wrote:
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> On Sunday 17 May 2009, MikSmith wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> This *must* be an insanely easy thing to work out, but I'm not too
>> familiar
>> with R syntax. So how do I work out the row number (if I pass a column)
>> of
>> the minimum value?? I can get the value itself from min(), but where can
>> I
>> get the row??
> 
> Maybe this helps:
> which(mycol == min(mycol))
> 
> where "mycol" is your column.
> Hth,
> Adrian
> 
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