[R] perfectionism

[Barth B. Riley]

Z[f] would return the fth values in z. That is, if f = c(1,2) z[f] would return the first and second elements of z. The original intent was to obtain the indices in z corresponding to the values in f.

Barth


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Subject: Re: [R] perfectionism

Did you try:

z[f]

On 25/11/2011 19:23, Jack Tanner wrote:
> I have a named vector:
>
>> z<- c(1, 2, 3, 2)
>> names(z)<- c("a","b","c","b")
>> f<- c("b","c")
>
> I want to know the index in z of the first occurrence of each of the values in f.
>
> One implementation is
>
>> sapply(f, function(x) which(names(z)==x)[1])
> b c
> 2 3
>
> Is which() smart enough to stop when it finds in z the first occurrence of every
> value from f, or does it search through all the values in z only to report the
> first one?
>
> Are some more elegant ways of writing this code?
>
> Just curious.
>
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