[R] Find the max entry in column 2 - that satisfies a condition given a fixed entry in column 1

[Bert Gunter]

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On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 4:50 PM Vangelis Litos <Redondo5_447 using hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I am using R and I created based on a vector x, a grid (named: plain) -
> where zero is included. This gives me a 9x2 ``matrix''.
>
> > x_t = cbind(c(1),c(2));
> > x = t(x_t);
>
> > plain = expand.grid (sort (unique (c (0, x))), sort (unique (c (0, x))));
>
> My aim is to focus on column 1 and take i.e the first entry (then the
> second, the third entry etc through a loop) of the unique (c (0, x)) vector
> (==0) [rows 1, 4 and 7] and find the maximum value (entry) in the second
> column of the matrix that satisfies a condition.
>
> Let say that the condition is satisfied when at column 2 the value is 2.
> That is I want row 7 to be selected
>
> Then I want to create a column vector b (9x1) that has zero everywhere
> apart from row 7.
>
> Can anybody help me with this?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
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