Dear Andras, Try
> a[findInterval(b, a)] [1] 8 32 HTH, Jorge.- On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Andras Farkas <motyoc...@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 > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
