Hi, I need to extract the second largest element from each row of a matrix. Below is my solution, but I think there should be a more efficient way to accomplish the same, or not?
set.seed(1) a <- matrix(rnorm(9), 3 ,3) sec.large <- as.vector(apply(a, 1, order, decreasing=T)[2,]) ans <- sapply(1:length(sec.large), function(i) a[i, sec.large[i]]) ans Thanks in advance for your help, Lars. [[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.