[BioC] comparing data frames

[Arne.Muller at aventis.com]

> 
> 
> I have two data frames with a name column containing affy 
> probeset ids. I would like to pull out the ids (just the ids) 
> which are common in both data frames. (Actually, I could just 
> have to character vectors and would like to print the common 
> elements).
> 
> I tried this approach:
> 
> for (elx in x) {for (ely in y) {if (elx==ely) print(ely)}}
> 
> x, y : character vectors

do

intersect(x,y) 

or better type help(intersect) which gives you the help for set operations in R.

	regards,

	Arne

 
> This prints out the correct result but I am not able to 
> assign the resulting probesets and it also seems quite an 
> inelegant solution.
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> Juerg Straubhaar
> UMass Med School
> 
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