[BioC] comparing data frames

Adaikalavan Ramasamy ramasamy at cancer.org.uk
Tue May 4 18:20:41 CEST 2004


See help(match).

Note that match returns the _first_ match. AFAIK, the probeset ids are
unique within any given cdf file, so this should not be a problem.

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 17:02, Straubhaar, Juerg wrote:
> 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
> 
> 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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