[R] finding common elements in a list

[Patrick Burns]

Here is one solution:

 > all(unlist(lapply(foo, function(x) c(2,3) %in% x)))
[1] TRUE

This doesn't have the restriction of assuming that the components
of the list have unique elements, as the original solution does.

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Andy Bunn wrote:

>Suppose I have a list where I want to extract only the elements that occur
>in every component. For instance in the list foo I want to know that the
>numbers 2 and 3 occur in every component. The solution I have seems
>unnecessarily clunky. TIA, Andy
>
>    foo <- list(x = 1:10, y=2:11, z=1:3)
>    bar <-unlist(foo)
>    bartab <- table(bar)
>    as.numeric(names(bartab)[bartab==length(foo)])
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