Hi,

With this code you can find row and col names for the largest value applied
to your example:

r.m.tmp<-apply(dat,1,max)
r.max<-names(r.m.tmp)[r.m.tmp==max(r.m.tmp)]

c.m.tmp<-apply(dat,2,max)
c.max<-names(c.m.tmp)[c.m.tmp==max(c.m.tmp)]

It's inmediate how to get the same for the smallest and build a function to
calculate everything and return a list.


Regards,
Carlos Ortega
www.qualityexcellence.es

2011/10/11 Ben qant <ccquant@gmail.com>

> Hello,
>
> I'm looking to get the values, row names and column names of the largest
> and
> smallest values in a matrix.
>
> Example (except is does not include the names):
>
> > x <- swiss$Education[1:25]
> > dat = matrix(x,5,5)
> > colnames(dat) = c('a','b','c','d','c')
> > rownames(dat) = c('z','y','x','w','v')
> > dat
>   a  b  c  d  c
> z 12  7  6  2 10
> y  9  7 12  8  3
> x  5  8  7 28 12
> w  7  7 12 20  6
> v 15 13  5  9  1
>
> > #top 10
> > sort(dat,partial=n-9:n)[(n-9):n]
>  [1]  9 10 12 12 12 12 13 15 20 28
> > # bottom 10
> > sort(dat,partial=1:10)[1:10]
>  [1] 1 2 3 5 5 6 6 7 7 7
>
> ...except I need the rownames and colnames to go along for the ride with
> the
> values...because of this, I am guessing the return value will need to be a
> list since all of the values have different row and col names (which is
> fine).
>
> Regards,
>
> Ben
>
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