[R] arithmetic comparison over corresponding values from two vectors

Charles C. Berry cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu
Tue Feb 10 18:37:24 CET 2009


On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Keith Jewell wrote:

> sapply(trgroup, function(x) which(x>=starts & x <=ends))
>
> works for your example data, but there's probably a better way


For large scale problems this works well:

 	 http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/60815.html


HTH,

Chuck


>
> HTH
>
> KJ
>
> "T Joshi" <tejalonline at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:11417a880902100902w53664a3dq11aee64a963d8383 at mail.gmail.com...
>> Hi,
>> I have scenario in which I wish to check whether numeric values in one
>> array
>> falls within the range of numbers defined over corresponding values in two
>> other vectors:
>>
>> starts = c(12,45,67,110)
>> ends=c(24, 58,102,150)
>>
>> trgroup=c(18,87)
>>
>> The result should be "1,3" , indices of vector starts/ends.
>> which(trgroup>=starts & trgroup<=ends) wouldn't give required result.
>> I don't want to write a for loop for doing this.  Kindly help with ideas.
>>
>> Josh
>
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