findBestNpvs {ramwas} | R Documentation

## Quickly Find N Smallest P-values in a Long Vector

### Description

Finding top, say, 100 p-values out of millions can be slow. This function does it much faster than the usual application of `order(pv)[1:N]`.

### Usage

    findBestNpvs(pv, n)

### Arguments

`pv` | Vector of p-values.
`n` | Number of best p-values to select.

### Details

The function is a faster analog of `sort(order(pv)[1:N])`

### Value

Return a vector of positions of the smallest `N` p-values in `pv`.

### Author(s)

Andrey A Shabalin andrey.shabalin@gmail.com

### See Also

See `order`.

### Examples

    pv = runif(1000)^10
    n = 100

    # Faster version
    topSites1 = findBestNpvs(pv, n)

    # Slow alternative
    topSites2 = sort(order(pv)[1:n])

    # The results must match
    stopifnot(all( topSites1 == topSites2 ))

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