Re: [R] Minimum distance

2005-04-17 Thread Douglas Bates
Williams, Michael wrote: G'day, I have a matrix 2 x 500 populated with all the distances between a list of airports and a list of towers. What I'm having trouble doing is finding the closest airport to each tower, Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Michael Williams Sounds like you

RE: [R] Minimum distance

2005-04-17 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Since it is not clear exactly what you require, I have assumed that what you are looking for is the minimum value for each row or column depending upon which is airports and which is the towers. Is this what you are looking for x - runif(100) dim(x) - c(5,20) apply(x,1,function(y) which(y ==