How about union() ? > a <- as.character(c("a", "b", "c", "d", "e")) > b <- as.character(c("d", "a", "c", "e", "f", "b")) > > union(a,b) [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f"
HTH, Jorge On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:31 PM, stephen sefick <> wrote: > a <- as.character(c("a", "b", "c", "d", "e")) > b <- as.character(c("d", "a", "c", "e", "f", "b")) > > How would I get a list of only the unique values of these two > character vectors. I would like the output a b c d e f there is no > reason to have these in order. I am looking at to character vectors > of genes and I would like to know all of the unique genes from the two > vectors. Thank you for all the help. > regards, > > -- > Stephen Sefick > > Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are > so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and > make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the > annoying little problems of being mammals. > > -K. Mullis > > ______________________________________________ > 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.