galemago wrote > > Dear Forum, > > I just recently started to work with R, I´d like to know if there is a way > to give instructions/do operations related to values with different > subscripts within a vector. > Let´s assume I have a vector like this: > A="368 369 370 371 393 394 395" > If I call "j" the subscripts of the vector I´d like to find the j value > such that A(j+1)-A(j) is the maximum. > This would tell me at which position of the vector I have the biggest gap. > (the fifth in the example above) > My problem is that I don´t find a way to define the vector subscripts as a > variable, that I believe is what I need to solve this problem. Is that > possible? > Thanks a lot, hope to come back often in this forum, > G. >
How about ... A <- c(368,369,370,371,393,394,395) which.max(diff(A)) HTH Pete -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/finding-the-subscript-of-a-vector-fulfiiling-a-given-condition-tp4387870p4388042.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
