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?is.element ?"%in%" HTH, Jorge On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:48 AM, C.H. <> wrote: > Dear R users, > > Suppose I have an vector like this: > > animal <- c("Tiger","Panda") > > I would like to know is there any function that check for the > existence of certain item in a vector. > > e.g. > > > func("Tiger",animal) # check for the existence of "Tiger" > TRUE > > func("Acacia",animal) #Acacia is not an item of the animal vector > FALSE > > I know that it can be done by for loop. But I would like to know is > there any built-in function for that. > > Thank you very much. > > CH > > -- > CH Chan > > ______________________________________________ > 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.