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Return the Index of the First Maximum Value of a Numeric Vector in R Programming - which.max() Function

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which.max() function in R Language is used to return the location of the first maximum value in the Numeric Vector.
Syntax: which.max(x) Parameters: x: Numeric Vector
Example 1: Python3 1==
# R program to find index of
# first maximum value

# Creating a vector
x <- c(2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2)

# Calling which.max() function
which.max(x)

# Printing maximum value
x[which.max(x)]
Output:
[1] 4
[1] 5
Example 2: Python3 1==
# R program to find index of
# first maximum value

# Calling pre-defined dataset
BOD$demand

# Calling which.max() function
which.max(BOD$demand)

# Printing maximum value
BOD$demand[which.max(BOD$demand)]
Output:
[1] 8.3 10.3 19.0 16.0 15.6 19.8
[1] 6
[1] 19.8

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