On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 06:32:43PM -0400, Giuseppe Paleologo wrote: > I was posed the following problem/teaser: > > given two matrices, come up with an "elegant" (=fast & short) function that > returns a matrix with all and only the non-duplicated columns of both > matrices; the column order does not matter. In essence, a matrix equivalent > of union(x,y), where x and y are vectors. I could not come with anything > nice. Any ideas?
union.matrices <- function(a, b) { u <- cbind(a,b) u[,!duplicated(u, MARGIN=2)] } ? (Obviously not attempting to deal with issues of identity of columns containing real numbers) Dan > > Giuseppe > > -- > Giuseppe A. Paleologo :: Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: AOL: gappy3000 :: > Skype :: gappy3000 :: Gtalk: paleologo :: Mobile: 917.331.3497 > fact: 2^32,582,657-1 is a prime > > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.