R help - Mar 2008 - Retrieving locations of element of a vector or matrix

Hello all,
  I have a problem of getting the locations of elements in a vector or matrix. I
know one can use the command "which.min" or which.max" to get the
location of minimum or maximum values in a vector. But is there any command to
get the first k minimum values or maximum values in a vector.
  Thanks

       
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I think that you can use:

x <- sample(1:20, 10)
head(sort(x), 5) #First 5 minimum values
head(sort(x, decreasing = TRUE), 5) #First 5 maximum values

On 31/03/2008, Yemi Oyeyemi <gmoyeyemi at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Hello all,
>   I have a problem of getting the locations of elements in a vector or
matrix. I know one can use the command "which.min" or which.max"
to get the location of minimum or maximum values in a vector. But is there any
command to get the first k minimum values or maximum values in a vector.
>   Thanks
>
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