newbie: new_data_frame <- selected set of rows

Two missing things:
distances
[1] 13 14 10 11  2  4  6  1  3  9  8 12  7  5

#numbers correspond to rows in my_dataframe
my_dataframe
V2         V3         V4        
V5         V6
ENSP00000354687 35660.45 0.04794521 0.05479452
0.06849315 0.07534247
ENSP00000355046 38942.77 0.02967359 0.04451039
0.04451039 0.06824926
ENSP00000354499 57041.21 0.04700855 0.08760684
0.11965812 0.06196581

ENSP00000354687 etc are rownames. 

I am trying to get top five row names with smallest
distances from a given vector as calculated by
distancevector from hopach.

Darek Kedra

____________________________________________________________________________________
Cheap talk?
#Mock df creation
my_dataframe <-data.frame(matrix(runif(14*5),14,5))
row.names(my_dataframe) <-paste("ENSP",1:14,sep="")
distances <-c(13,14,10 ,11,  2,  4,  6,  1,  3,  9,  8, 12,  7,  5)

head(my_dataframe[order(distances),],5)
From: Darek Kedra <darked90 at yahoo.com>
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] newbie: new_data_frame <- selected set of rows
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 14:52:25 -0800 (PST)

Two missing things:

distances
 [1] 13 14 10 11  2  4  6  1  3  9  8 12  7  5

#numbers correspond to rows in my_dataframe

my_dataframe
                      V2         V3         V4
V5         V6
ENSP00000354687 35660.45 0.04794521 0.05479452
0.06849315 0.07534247
ENSP00000355046 38942.77 0.02967359 0.04451039
0.04451039 0.06824926
ENSP00000354499 57041.21 0.04700855 0.08760684
0.11965812 0.06196581

ENSP00000354687 etc are rownames.

I am trying to get top five row names with smallest
distances from a given vector as calculated by
distancevector from hopach.

Darek Kedra

____________________________________________________________________________________
Cheap talk?

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