Try this:

mapply(function(x, y)mitest[x, y], c("a", "b", "c"), c("b", "c", "b"))

or

diag(`[`(mitest, i = c("a", "b", "c"), j = c("b", "c", "b")))



On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Agustin Lobo <aloboaleu@gmail.com> wrote:

> Given:
>
> > mitest <- matrix(1:16,ncol=4)
> > dimnames(mitest)[[1]] <- c("a","b","c","d")
> > dimnames(mitest)[[2]] <- c("a","b","c","d")
> > mitest
>  a b  c  d
> a 1 5  9 13
> b 2 6 10 14
> c 3 7 11 15
> d 4 8 12 16
>
> I can do:
> > mitest[cbind(c(1,2,3),c(2,3,2))]
> [1]  5 10  7
>
> but using the names does not work:
> > mitest[cbind(c("a","b","c"),c("b","c","b"))]
> [1] NA NA NA NA NA NA
>
> despite the fact that
> > mitest["a","b"]
> [1] 5
>
> works fine.
>
> How can I do the equivalent of
> > mitest[cbind(c(1,2,3),c(2,3,2))]
>
> using row and column names?
>
> Thanks
>
> Agus
>
>
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