Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote:
try this:match.pat <- function (mat, target, nomatch = -1) { f1 <- do.call("paste", c(as.data.frame(mat), sep = "\r")) f2 <- paste(target, collapse = "\r") ind <- f1 %in% f2 if (any(ind)) which(ind)[1] else nomatch }
Thanks! More R for me to sink my teeth in :-) My own solution doesn't seem to work quite correctly as I found out from some further testing .. so the solutions posted here are much appreciated! Esmail ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
