set functions

[Martin Maechler]

 On 4 Jan 2000, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
 > Watch:
 > 
 > > x<-1:50000
 > > y<-x[order(runif(50000))]
 > > "equiv2" <- function(x, y) all(c(match(x, y, 0)>0, match(y, x, 0)>0))
 > > equiv<-function(x,y) 
 > +     length(x<-unique(x))==length(y<-unique(y)) && 
 > +     all(sort(x)==sort(y)) 
 > > system.time(equiv2(x,y))
 > [1] 3.10 0.02 3.00 0.00 0.00
 > > system.time(equiv(x,y))
 > [1] 0.77 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00

    JonR> Yup -- that's much quicker!  To re-ask the original question,
    JonR> would it be reasonable to include such a function along with the
    JonR> other set functions?  Cheers, Jonathan.

quite a good idea, particularly, since we all have now learned that it is
non-trivial to write really efficiently.

However, I think "equiv" is not specific enough (could mean "equivalence of
arbitrary R objects").
Wouldn't  "setequiv" or "setequal" be better ?

((and would you provide (to R-core)  patches to
    src/library/base/R/sets.R and src/library/base/man/sets.Rd))

Martin
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