Antje wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for a solution for the following problem: > I have two vectors > > V1 <- c("apple","honey","milk","bread","butter") > V2 <- c("bread","milk") > > now, I would like to know for each element in V1 if it's equal to one of > the elements in V2 > I could do: > which(V1 == V2[1] | V1 == V2[2]) > > but what if I don't know the length of V2 and it's content???
V1 %in% V2 [1] FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE or is.element(V1, V2) [1] FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE ?is.element > Thank you in advance! > > Antje > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. -- Chuck Cleland, Ph.D. NDRI, Inc. 71 West 23rd Street, 8th floor New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 845-4495 (Tu, Th) tel: (732) 512-0171 (M, W, F) fax: (917) 438-0894 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.