Best-possible match of two numeric vectors

This function matches the indices of two numeric vectors as good as possible (that means with the smallest possible sum of deviations).

Usage

match_numerics(x, y)

Arguments

x, y

[numeric()]
Two vectors of the same length.

Value

An integer vector of length length(x) with the positions of y in x.

See also

Other vector helpers: check_numeric_vector(), check_probability_vector(), chunk_vector(), equidistant_vectors(), insert_vector_entry(), map_indices(), permutations(), split_vector_at(), subsets(), vector_occurrence()

Examples

x <- c(-1, 0, 1)
y <- c(0.1, 1.5, -1.2)
match_numerics(x, y)
#> [1] 2 3 1