Thanks! I'll use the which.min function. I've been learning R from the pdfs on the CRAN website, but I find the texts to be generally introductory, not comprehensive, and focused on one niche purpose. Can anyone suggest a good self-teach guide?
Thanks again! R_Learner wrote: > > I have a long list of numbers [3.4,5.4,3.67,....], and I basically want to > find the index of the number closest to this number that I have, let's say > 5.43. How would I do this without writing a for loop (I have to do this > many times for several lists)? Is there a "lookup" function in R? > > Thanks! > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Find-the-closest-value-in-a-list-or-matrix-tp18363290p18375656.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.
