[R] check without loop

[Jason Turner]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:40:58AM -0500, jimi adams wrote:
> i am probably just missing this one, but how can i check to see if a number
> is a part of a vector?
...
> # if i draw, say 80, i would then not want to proceed, but if i draw a
> number on arclist i do

if( !(80 %in% arclist)) {...}

Getting a bit trickier, if you need to know which element it is, 
check out "which()".  e.g.  if you would only proceed if 79 was 
one of the first 20 elements

if(any(which(arclist == 79) <=20)) {...}

Cheers

Jason
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