Dear Andras,

Try

> a[findInterval(b, a)]
[1]  8 32

HTH,
Jorge.-


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Andras Farkas <motyocska@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> would you please provide your thoughts on the following:
> let us say I have:
>
> a <-c(1,5,8,15,32,69)
> b <-c(8.5,33)
>
> and I would like to extract from "a" the two values that are closest to
> the values in "b", where the length of this vectors may change but b will
> allways be shorter than "a". So at the end based on this example I should
> have the result "f" as
>
> f <-c(8,32)
>
> appreciate the help,
>
> Andras
>
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