That's what "ifelse" is for: ifelse(fpr(b, k.floor) < fpr(b, k.ceiling), k.floor, k.ceiling)
Reid Huntsinger -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Seung Jun Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 5:27 PM To: R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] which.pmin? I have two vectors (k.floor and k.ceiling) of integers of the same length, and a function (fpr). b <- 10:40 k.floor <- floor(log(2) * b) k.ceiling <- ceiling(log(2) * b) fpr.floor <- fpr(b, k.floor) fpr.ceiling <- fpr(b, k.ceiling) If R had a element-wise ternary function, I'd like to do something like this: (fpr.floor < fpr.ceiling) ? k.floor : k.ceiling That is, I'd like to go through the two vectors in parallel, picking the one that returns the lower value of fpr. Failing to find such a function, I wrote the following two lines: ind <- sapply(data.frame(rbind(fpr.floor,fpr.ceiling)), which.min) opt.k <- cbind(k.floor,k.ceiling)[1:length(ind)+length(ind)*(ind-1)] opt.k is the vector I want, but I guess I abuse some functions here. I'd like to ask the experts, What is the proper R-way to do this? The API should be like "which.pmin(FUN, X, Y, ...)" that returns a vector of the same length as X (and Y), provided that X, Y, ... have the same length. Please fill the function body. Seung ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html