Am 1 Nov 2006 um 14:49 hat Antje geschrieben: Date sent: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:49:43 +0100 From: Antje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] extract values from a vector
> 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 Is this what you are looking for? HTH, Bernd ______________________________________________ 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.