stat stat wrote:
> I want to see at which row minimum value of the second column occures.
>
> Therefore I made the following loop:
[snip while-loop]
>
> Is there any more effective way to do that in terms of time consumption?
I don't know about timing, but I understand that loops are somewhat
slow. Assuming that x is the first column and y is the second column:
D <- data.frame( x = 1:10, y = rnorm(10) )
D$x[ which.min(D$y) ]
See the help of which.min for more info.
-Jarimatti
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