May be this helps: d[cumsum(sapply(d,function(x) any(x>b)))>=1] #[1] 12 24 36 A.K.
----- Original Message ----- From: Andras Farkas <motyoc...@yahoo.com> To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 2:29 PM Subject: [R] vector question Dear All, would you please help with the following: let us say I have: a <-c(0,1,12,13,24,25,36,37) b <-c(6,24.6,27) #then I extract every 2nd element from "a" d <-a[seq(1, length(a), 2)] and what I need help with is to extract the 1st value from d that is greater than the values in b, so as a result I should have "f" as: f <-c(12,36,36) appreciate the insights, thank you, Andras ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
