Dear list, I have a vector of characters and a list of two named elements :
i <- c("a","a","b","b","b","c","c","d") j <- list(j1 = c("a","c"), j2 = c("b","d")) I'm looking for a fast way to obtain a vector with names, as follows : [1] "j1" "j1" "j2" "j2" "j2" "j1" "j1" "j2" I used : match <- lapply(j, function (x) {which(i %in% x)}) k <- vector() for (y in 1:length(match)) { k[match[[y]]] <- names(match[y])} k [1] "j1" "j1" "j2" "j2" "j2" "j1" "j1" "j2" But, I think a better way exists ... Thanks in advance, Carlos [[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.