R help - Mar 2008 - Find the index for min of a matrix

Hi,

My example is as the following, 

W<-matrix(c(2,4,2,8,1,3),ncol=3)
which(W==min(W))

I would like to find the index for min of the matrix W, i.e. (1, 3) instead of 5
as the output. What command could I use?

Thanks,

Kate 
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> W <- matrix(c(2,4,2,8,1,3), ncol = 3)
> which(W == min(W), arr.ind = TRUE)    #### note difference...
     row col
[1,]   1   3
> W  # chech
     [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]    2    2    1
[2,]    4    8    3 


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Subject: [R] Find the index for min of a matrix

Hi,

My example is as the following, 

W<-matrix(c(2,4,2,8,1,3),ncol=3)
which(W==min(W))

I would like to find the index for min of the matrix W, i.e. (1, 3)
instead of 5 as the output. What command could I use?

Thanks,

Kate 
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