nearestReftoX: Find Nearest Element of Reference for each Element of X

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) See Also Examples

View source: R/nearestReftoX.R

Description

Find nearest element of a sorted reference vector and to each element of x.

Usage

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nearestReftoX(x, reference, ...)

Arguments

x

numeric vector.

reference

numeric vector, sorted in increasing order.

...

other arguments as passed to findInterval.

Details

This function finds the element of a reference table (reference) that is closest to each element of an incoming vector (x).

The function is a simple wrapper for findInterval in the base package. It calls findInterval with vec equal to the mid-points between the reference values.

Value

Integer vector giving indices of elements of reference.

Author(s)

Gordon Smyth

See Also

findInterval

Examples

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nearestReftoX(c(-10,0.5,0.6,2,3), reference = c(-1,0,2))

Example output

Loading required package: limma
[1] 1 2 2 3 3

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