[R] question about matrix one column values matching a vector ofvalues

[Bill.Venables at csiro.au]

> a <- matrix (1:16, 4, 4)
> b <- c (2,3) 
> 
> which(a[, 1] %in% b)
[1] 2 3
> 
> a
     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
[1,]    1    5    9   13
[2,]    2    6   10   14  ## <<----
[3,]    3    7   11   15  ## <<----
[4,]    4    8   12   16
> 

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-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Waverley
Sent: Monday, 10 March 2008 9:23 AM
To: r-help; r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] question about matrix one column values matching a vector
ofvalues

Hi,

I have a matrix
a = matrix (1:16, 4, 4)
b = c (2,3)

I want to find out which rows of a, where a[,1] equals any values of b?

I know that if b is only one value, e.g, b=2, then what I want is
a[a[,1] == 2,]

But what about if it is not one value but a vector of values?

Thanks much in advance.

-- 
Waverley @ Palo Alto

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