Re: extract row name of matrix

[Sarah Henderson <sarah.henderson@ubc.ca>]

Thanks to Sundar Dorai-Raj and Eric Zivot for suggesting the use of 
which(), with which I have no previous experience.  A good thing to know!
Thanks again,

Sarah


> You want something that returns the index of the maximum.
>
> which.max <- function(x) which(x == max(x))
> dimnames(m)[[1]][which.max(m[, 3])]
>
> HTH,
>
> --sundar
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