[R] finding the minimum value

[Charles C. Berry]

On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, maram salem wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm using a certain  procedure to calculate the value of some variable(Bayes risk),B.
> So I got the values B1, B2, ........, B1000, each under certain input values and using a long procedure.
> Now, I want to put the values I got in a nummerical vector and find their minimum value. I think c( ) should work.For example if I have only 10 values I could have used
> c(B1,B2,B3,B4,B5,B6,B7,B8,B9,B10)
> But how can I do this for 1000 values?

 	sapply( paste( "B", 1:1000, sep='' ), get )

but I wonder why you didn't store the values in a list to start with.

HTH,

Chuck


> I think the question is really trivial, but I tried to work on it and couldn't reach anythg.
> Thanks.
> Maram
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