Dear Jacy, As Jorge said.
To clarify : what you ask, is actually to compare the first element of genotype with the first element of FREQ, the second of genotype with the second of FREQ and so on. If the lengths differ, the shorter vector is recycled. This toy example illustrates that principle : > test1 <- c("a","b","c") > test2 <- c("a", "c", "b") > test3 <- c("c","a","b") > test4=rep("c",6) > test1 == test2 [1] TRUE FALSE FALSE (only a is found in the same position) > test1 == test3 [1] FALSE FALSE FALSE > test1==test4 [1] FALSE FALSE TRUE FALSE FALSE TRUE (test1 is used twice) Welcome to the wonderful world of R :-) Kind regards Joris On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Jorge Ivan Velez <jorgeivanve...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear Jacy, > Try this: > > colnames(FREQ) %in% colnames(genotype) > > See ?"%in%" for details. Also, take a look at also ?match. > > HTH, > > Jorge > > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Crosby, Jacy R > <jacy.r.cro...@uth.tmc.edu>wrote: > > > What am I missing here? Both of my column headers in the 'FREQ' table are > > found in the 'genotype'; however, they aren't being recognized. > > > > > colnames(FREQ) > > [1] "X17362526" "X17362627" > > > > > colnames(genotype) > > [1] "X17362311" "X17362316" "X17362346" "X17362420" "X17362421" > > "X17362422" "X17362435" "X17362438" "X17362459" > > [10] "X17362488" "X17362493" "X17362526" "X17362542" "X17362565" > > "X17362566" "X17362581" "X17362594" "X17362605" > > [19] "X17362627" "X17362642" "X17363363" "X17363364" "X17363388" > > "X17363389" "X17363404" "X17363410" > > > > > colnames(genotype)==colnames(FREQ) > > [1] FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE > > FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE > > [19] FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.