[R] Simple... but...

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth wrote:

> If
>
> x=c(1,3,5)
> y=c(2,4,6)
>
> I need a vector which is c(1,2,3,4,5,6) from x and y.

I am assuming that you want to interleave the vectors, but that is not the 
only algorithm giving that result.

> How do I do it? I mean the best way....

as.vector(rbind(x,y))
c(rbind(x,y))
sort(c(x,y))

for some values of 'it' and 'best'.

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