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I would like to find the closest value to column x3 below.
data=data.frame(x1=c(24,12,76),x2=c(15,30,20),x3=c(45,27,15))
data
x1 x2 x3
1 24 15 45
2 12 30 27
3 76 20 15
So desired output will be
Closest_Value_to_x3
24
30
20
Please help. Thank you
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To find the row corresponding to a nearest value in an R data frame, we can use which. min function after getting the absolute difference between the value and the column along with single square brackets for subsetting the row.
You can use the following basic syntax to find the rows of a data frame in R in which a certain value appears in any of the columns: library(dplyr) df %>% filter_all(any_vars(. %in% c('value1', 'value2', ...)))
replace() function in R Language is used to replace the values in the specified string vector x with indices given in list by those given in values. It takes on three parameters first is the list name, then the index at which the element needs to be replaced, and the third parameter is the replacement values.
Use max.col(-abs(data[, 3] - data[, -3])) to find the column positions of the closest values and use this result as part of a matrix to extract desired values from your data. The matrix is returned by cbind
col <- 3
data[, -col][cbind(1:nrow(data),
max.col(-abs(data[, col] - data[, -col])))]
#[1] 24 30 20
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