In addition to the other responses, you may want to look at the 'partial' argument to sort. For large vectors it may speed things up to not sort everything if all you care about is the top and bottom few.
Try: > tmp <- rnorm(100) > plot( sort(tmp, partial=c(1,2,99,100) ) ) Hope this helps, -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare [EMAIL PROTECTED] (801) 408-8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Markus Mühlbacher > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 9:26 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Lowest k values of list > > Hi @ all, > > how do I get the largest or lowest k values of list? It must > similar to the min() / max() function, but I just don't get it. > > Best wishes, > Markus > > > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
