[R] Coercion/conversion of logical index to integer index

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Wed, 29 May 2002 holki659 at student.otago.ac.nz wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> This question has significant potential to be a stupid one, but as I could find no hints in
> the manual or previous posts:
>
> If you have a logical index X:
>
> >X
> [1] TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE
>
> And you want an equivalent integer index Y:
>
> >Y
> [1] 1 3 4
>
> Is there no easy way?  (I'm thinking of the equivalent of FIND in Matlab)

seq(along=X)[X] is easy enough, and which(X) is even easier (to use, if
unnecessarily complex here).


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