[R] extract values from a vector

[Peter Dalgaard]

Antje <niederlein-rstat at yahoo.de> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm looking for a solution for the following problem:
> I have two vectors
> 
> V1 <- c("apple","honey","milk","bread","butter")
> V2 <- c("bread","milk")
> 
> now, I would like to know for each element in V1 if it's equal to one of 
> the elements in V2
> I could do:
> which(V1 == V2[1] | V1 == V2[2])
> 
> but what if I don't know the length of V2 and it's content???


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> Thank you in advance!
> 
> Antje
> 
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