[R] In which column and in which row a number is in a matrix

[Gerrit Eichner]

Hi, Charles,

see

?which

and learn about the argument arr.ind.

  Happy new year  --  Gerrit


On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Charles Novaes de Santana wrote:

> Dear all, Happy New Year for all of you! I hope we have an year of
> essential freedom for everyone!
>
> I am trying to manipulate a matrix in order to know in which column
> and in which row a number is allocated. But, when we use the function
> "which" it returns the position of the number in the "vector
> representation of the matrix". For example:
>
>> mata<-matrix(2:7,nrow=2,ncol=3)
>> mata
>     [,1] [,2] [,3]
> [1,]    2    4    6
> [2,]    3    5    7
>> matb<-matrix(2:7,nrow=3,ncol=2)
>> matb
>     [,1] [,2]
> [1,]    2    5
> [2,]    3    6
> [3,]    4    7
>> which(mata==4)
> [1] 3
>> which(matb==4)
> [1] 3
>
> The function "which" returns the position "3" for both, mata and matb,
> but If I didn't know that mata is a 2x3 matrix and matb is a 3x2, I
> wouldn't know that the number 4 is at the column 2 and row 1 of the
> mata and at the column 1 and row 3 of the matb. Do you know any way to
> know the column and the row of a number in a matrix automatically?
>
> Thanks, best regards,
>
> Charles
>
>
> -- 
> Um axé! :)
>
> --
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