set functions
Peter Dalgaard BSA
p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk
04 Jan 2000 17:16:48 +0100
Jonathan Rougier <J.C.Rougier@durham.ac.uk> writes:
> I wonder if we might also include an "equiv" function along with the other
> set functions (ie "union", "intersect", etc), perhaps along the lines of
>
> "equiv" <- function(x, y) all(c(match(x, y, 0)>0, match(y, x, 0)>0))
>
> (which I think might be the quickest implementation). I use this type of
> function quite frequently: is there some reason why it is not in the base?
length(setdiff(x,y))==0 appears to be about twice as fast....
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