find indices of non zero elements in matrix

Question

I want to get the indices of non zero elements in a matrix.for example

X <- matrix(c(1,0,3,4,0,5), byrow=TRUE, nrow=2);

should give me s

Answer 1

There's an error in your example code - True is not defined, use TRUE.

X <-matrix(c(1,0,3,4,0,5), byrow = TRUE, nrow = 2)

which should do it:

which(!X == 0)
X[ which(!X == 0)]
#[1] 1 4 3 5

to get the row/col indices:

 row(X)[which(!X == 0)]
 col(X)[which(!X == 0)]

to use those to index back into the matrix:

   X[cbind(row(X)[which(!X == 0)], col(X)[which(!X == 0)])]
   #[1] 1 4 3 5