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2009 Jun 04
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Fast way of finding top-n values of a long vector
If x is a (long) vector and n << length(x), what is a fast way of 
finding the top-n values of x?
Some suggestions (calculating the ratio of the two top values):
library("rbenchmark")
set.seed(1); x <- runif(1e6, max=1e7); x[1] <- NA;
benchmark(
 replications=20,
 columns=c("test","elapsed"),
 order="elapsed"
 , sort = {a<-sort(x,