[R] search through a matrix

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

Uwe Ligges wrote:
> 
> 
> onyourmark wrote:
>> Hi. I have a 925 by 925 correlation matrix corM. I want to identify all
>> variables that have correlation greater than 0.9.  Can anyone suggest 
>> an "R
>> way" of doing this?
>>
>> Thank you.
> 
> Example:
> 
> # prepare example data:
> x <- matrix((1:25) / 25, 5, 5)
> rownames(x) <- letters[1:5]
> colnames(x) <- letters[1:5]
> 
> # solution
> cbind(rownames(x)[row(x)[x > 0.9]], colnames(x)[col(x)[x > 0.9]])

or even

which(x > 0.9, arr.ind = TRUE)


Best,
Dimitris

> 
> Uwe Ligges
> 
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