R-beta: get index numbers of vector?

[Thomas Lumley]

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Bill Simpson wrote:

> I have ordered x,y data. Suppose I have
> y<-c(1,2,3,4,5,6,5,4,3,2,1)
> x<-c(.1,.2,.3,.4,.5,.6,.7,.8,.9,1.0,1.1)
> 
> I want a function left(y,3) which returns the index of the first y value
> >3.

left<-function(xs,x){
	n<-length(xs)
	min( (1:n)[xs>x])
}

right<-function(xs,x){
	n<-length(xs)
	n+1-left(xs[n:1],x)
}

These return NA if no such value exists. 


Thomas Lumley
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