Hi You can try the intro book by Peter Dalgaard and I found useful also R-tips (statsRus), You can find it through google.
Regards Petr [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal dne 10.07.2008 06:25:36: > > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.