[R] how to fetch rows with certain characteristics

[Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)]

tapply(x, y, min)

where x is the vector of numbers and y the vector of class labels.

Best,

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From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Waverley @ Palo Alto [waverley.paloalto at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 6:47 AM
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Subject: [R] how to fetch rows with certain characteristics

Hi,

I have a matrix, first column is of certain values, second column is
the class labels or a factor.
e.g.

1.2 1
1.3 1
1.3 1
1.5 1
2.1 2
2.0 2
9.9 2
1.4 3
1.8 3
1.9 3

I want to find out what is the min values of column 1 for each
corresponding class (column 2).  For the above example, I want to
return a matrix of
1.2 1
2.0 2
1.3 3

Can someone suggest how to code for that?  The second column can be of
characters.

Thanks much.


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