[R] A kind of set operation in R

Julio Sergio juliosergio at gmail.com
Thu Apr 5 21:32:20 CEST 2012


I have an ordered "set" of numbers, represented by a vector, say

  > X <- c(10:13, 17,18)
  > X
  [1] 10 11 12 13 17 18

then I have a "sub-set" of X, say

  > Y <- c(11,12,17,18)

Is there a simple way in R to have a logical vector (parallel to X) indicating 
what elements of X are in Y, i.e.,

  > Inclusion
  [1] FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE

I'm trying to avoid looping over both vectors to produce the tests. Do you have 
any comments on this?

Thanks,

--Sergio.



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