> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of behave14 > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 11:15 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Maximum of remaining elements of vector > > Dear community > > I have the following problem. I'd like to have the maximum of the > remaining > elements of a vector. > > ex. > x<-c(1,2,3,4,1,2,3,1,2,1) > > f(x) = c(4,4,4,4,3,3,3,2,2,1) > > where the first element is: max(x[1:length(x]) > the second one: max(x[2:length(x)]) > the third one: max(x[3:length(x)]) and so on > > Of course this can be done with a loop, but isn't there a nicer and > faster > way to do so?
f <- function(x) sapply(1:length(x), function(y) max(x[y:length(x)])) f(x) > > Regards, > bahave14 > > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Maximum-of- > remaining-elements-of-vector-tp4466499p4466499.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. ---------------------------------------------- David L Carlson Associate Professor of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4352 ______________________________________________ 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.
