Antje wrote:
Hi all,
I'd like to know, if I can solve this with a shorter command:
a <- rnorm(100)
which(a > -0.5 & a < 0.5)
# would give me all indices of numbers greater than -0.5 and smaller than +0.5
I have something similar with a dataframe and it produces sometimes quite long
commands...
I'd like to have something like:
which(within.interval(a, -0.5, 0.5))
Is there anything I could use for this purpose?
Not in general, but in this particular case "abs(a) < 0.5" gives you the
right result.
By the way, some advice I read many years ago (in Kernighan and
Plauger): always use < or <=, avoid > or >= in multiple comparisons.
It's easier to read
-0.5 < a & a < 0.5
than it is to read the form you used, because it is so much like the
math notation -0.5 < a < 0.5.
Duncan Murdoch
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