lb {bsearchtools} | R Documentation |
Binary search based lower bound operation
Description
Returns the index pointing to the first element in the vector that is not less than (i.e. greater or equal to) valueToSearch. The behavior is the same as C++ std::lower_bound function, hence, if the vector is empty or valueToSearch is lower than the first element of the vector, it returns the first index (i.e. 1).
The functions suffixed with the vector type (lbNumeric,lbLogical etc.) can be used ONLY with the specified type, otherwise the vector is coerced, and they are (hopefully negligibly) faster then the generic lb function.
For information about NAs handling see details section.
Usage
lb(sortedValues, valueToSearch)
lbInteger(sortedValues, valueToSearch)
lbNumeric(sortedValues, valueToSearch)
lbLogical(sortedValues, valueToSearch)
lbCharacter(sortedValues, valueToSearch)
Arguments
sortedValues |
A sorted atomic vector of type numeric, integer, logical or character. |
valueToSearch |
The value to search. If equal to |
Details
lb*
functions expect sortedValues
to be a vector sorted ascending (duplicated values are allowed).
Since the binary search functions rely on values comparison (using <
operator) and NA
cannot be compared by definition,
if sortedValues
vector contains NA
, the result is unpredictable and NO warning is given. Hence remove them before calling these functions.
Value
The index pointing to the first element in the vector that is not less than (i.e. greater or equal to) valueToSearch.
References
See http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/lower_bound
Examples
lb(c(1,4,5,5,7,9),5) # returns 3
lb(c(1,4,5,5,7,9),-1) # returns 1
lb(numeric(),-1) # returns 1