which.min.diff: Find index where two vectors are closest

which.min.diffR Documentation

Find index where two vectors are closest

Description

Finds the index point where two index vectors are closest in value

Usage

which.min.diff(a, vect)

Arguments

a

input vector

vect

input vector

Value

The index where abs(a-vect) is smallest, ie where a and vect are smallest.

Author(s)

Piotr Fryzlewicz <p.fryzlewicz@imperial.ac.uk>

Examples

#
# Make up two vectors
#
a <- c(1,2,3)
vect <- c(3,2,1)
#
# Now see on which index are the two closest in value 
#
which.min.diff(a,vect)
#[1] 2
#
# ie its the second index where both vectors are actually 2

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