Try: > b_tmp %in% a_tmp
You may also want to use the all or any function with the above. Hope this helps, -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Jason Rupert > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 4:50 PM > To: R-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] R command to compare two vectors? > > By any chance is there an R command to compare two vectors? > > For example, > a_tmp<-c("a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", 'h') > b_tmp<-c("a", "c", "e", "g") > > I would like to compare b_tmp against a_tmp to determine if the members > of b_tmp are part of a_tmp. > > I tried > subset(b_tmp, b_tmp==a_tmp) > > That doesn't seem to work. > > Thanks again. > > > > [[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.
