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Fastest way to find the index of the second (third...) highest/lowest value in vector or column ?
i.e. what
sort(x,partial=n-1)[n-1]
is to
max()
but for
which.max()
Best,
Fastest way to find second (third...) highest/lowest value in vector or column
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We can find the minimum and the maximum of a vector using the min() or the max() function. A function called range() is also available which returns the minimum and maximum in a two element vector.
To get the top values in an R data frame, we can use the head function and if we want the values in decreasing order then sort function will be required. Therefore, we need to use the combination of head and sort function to find the top values in decreasing order.
which. min() function in R Language is used to return the location of the first minimum value in the Numeric Vector.
One possible route is to use the index.return argument to sort. I'm not sure if this is fastest though.
set.seed(21)
x <- rnorm(10)
ind <- 2
sapply(sort(x, index.return=TRUE), `[`, length(x)-ind+1)
# x ix
# 1.746222 3.000000
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