[R] Common elements in columns

Silvano Cesar da Costa silvano at uel.br
Mon Sep 3 13:01:26 CEST 2012


Hi Arun,

it's exactly what I wanted.

Thanks a lot,



> Hi,
> May be this might help:
>
> set.seed(1)
> df1<-data.frame(C1=sample(LETTERS[1:25],20,replace=FALSE),value=sample(50,20,replace=FALSE))
> set.seed(15)
> df2<-data.frame(C1=sample(LETTERS[1:25],15,replace=FALSE),C2=1:15)
> set.seed(3)
> df3<-data.frame(C1=sample(LETTERS[1:10],10,replace=FALSE),B1=rnorm(10,3))
> set.seed(5)
> df4<-data.frame(C1=sample(LETTERS[1:15],10,replace=FALSE),A2=rnorm(10,15))
> df1$C1[df1$C1%in%df2$C1[df2$C1%in%df3$C1[df3$C1%in%df4$C1]]]
> #[1] G E H J
> A.K.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Silvano Cesar da Costa <silvano at uel.br>
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Sunday, September 2, 2012 7:05 PM
> Subject: [R] Common elements in columns
>
> Hi,
>
> I have 4 files with 10000 individuals in each file and 10 columns each.
> One of the columns, say C1, may have elements in common with the other
> columns C1 of other files.
>
> If I have only 2 files, I can do this check with the command:
>
> data1[data1 %in% data2]
> data2[data2 %in% data1]
>
> How do I check which common elements in the columns of C1 4 files?
>
> Thanks,
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> Silvano Cesar da Costa
>
> Universidade Estadual de Londrina
> Centro de Ciências Exatas
> Departamento de Estatística
>
> Fone: (43) 3371-4346
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Silvano Cesar da Costa

Universidade Estadual de Londrina
Centro de Ciências Exatas
Departamento de Estatística

Fone: (43) 3371-4346




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