I have two vectors, A
and B
. For every element in A
I want to find the index of the first element in B
that is greater and has higher index. The length of A
and B
are the same.
So for vectors:
A <- c(10, 5, 3, 4, 7)
B <- c(4, 8, 11, 1, 5)
I want a result vector:
R <- c(3, 3, 5, 5, NA)
Of course I can do it with two loops, but it's very slow, and I don't know how to use apply() in this situation, when the indices matter. My data set has vectors of length 20000, so the speed is really important in this case.
A few bonus questions:
What if I have a sequence of numbers (like seq = 2:10
), and I want to find the first number in B
that is higher than a+s for every a of A and every s of seq.
Like with question 1), but I want to know the first greater, and the first lower value, and create a matrix, which stores which one was first. So for example I have a of A
, and 10 from seq. I want to find the first value of B
, which is higher than a+10, or lower than a-10, and then store it's index and value.
sapply(sapply(seq_along(a),function(x) which(b[-seq(x)]>a[x])+x),"[",1)
[1] 3 3 5 5 NA
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