Hi Worik,

See ?which.min

x <- matrix(c(7, 7, 9, 7, 7, 9, 2, 9), ncol = 2, byrow = FALSE)
which.min(x[,2])
x[which.min(x[,2]), ]


HTH,
Jorge

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Worik R <> wrote:

> Friends
>
> If I have a matrix such as...
>
>     [,1] [,2]
> [1,]    7    7
> [2,]    7    9
> [3,]    9   2
> [4,]    7    9
>
> And I want to find the row number that has the minimum value of column 2
> (row 3 in this  case) how can I do it?  Is there a simple way?
>
> cheers
> Worik
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