[R] Are any values in one list contained within a second list

[Phil Spector]

I think the simplest way is to translate the English
directly :-)

> list1 = c('a','b','c','d','e','f','g')
> list2 = c('z','y','x','w','v','u','b')
> any(list2 %in% list1)
[1] TRUE
> list2 = c('z','y','x','w','v','u','t')
> any(list2 %in% list1)
[1] FALSE

 					- Phil Spector
 					 Statistical Computing Facility
 					 Department of Statistics
 					 UC Berkeley
 					 spector at stat.berkeley.edu


On Sun, 13 Jun 2010, GL wrote:

>
> Silly question, but, can I test to see if any value of list a is contained in
> list b without doing a loop? A loop is easy enough, but wanted to see if
> there was a cleaner way. By way of example:
>
> List 1: a, b, c, d, e, f, g
>
> List 2: z, y, x, w, v, u, b
>
> Return true, since both lists contain b
>
> List 1: a, b, c, d, e, f, g
>
> List 2: z, y, x, w, v, u, t
>
> Return false, since the lists have no mutual values
>
>
>
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