Marc Schwartz wrote:
>
> I might be tempted to take a more generic approach, where one can
> provide an argument to the function to indicate that I want the 'top x'
> maximum values and to give the user the option of returning the indices
> or the values themselves.
>
> Perhaps:
>
> which.max2 <- function(x, top = 1, values = FALSE)
> {
> if (values)
> rev(sort(x))[1:top]
> else
> order(x, decreasing = TRUE)[1:top]
> }
Very cool too! .. Thanks Marc. Again, I did not get this from the
order documentation (ie that it manipulate index values rather than
the values themselves). Great to see examples.
Best,
Esmail
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