this is exactly what i wanted. How to i select only the minimum value from this?.
thank you My apologies: you need an abs() call as well: which(abs(outer(x, y, "-")) < threshold, arr.ind = TRUE) Michael -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/equating-approximate-values-tp4157551p4158691.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.