[R] A question about "union"

[Wacek Kusnierczyk]

... but it seems to me a better solution to have the vectors you need in
a list, and then iterate over the list, rather than have to look the
vectors up by name:

vectors = list(v1, v2, 1:10, ...)
u = NULL
for (v in vectors) u = union(u, v)

when you use get, you start to explicitly play with environments, and
you should be knowing what you do, otherwise ugly surprizes await.

vQ


Leon Yee wrote:
> Cool! It works!
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Leon
>
> Yihui Xie wrote:
>> You need to get() their elements instead of merely using variable names.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Yihui
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>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Leon Yee <yee.leon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>>   I have a question about "union".  "union" handles two vectors'
>>> elements to
>>> get their union, but I have many vectors and I want to get the union
>>> of all
>>> of them. So I wrote a loop:
>>>
>>> all <-c();
>>> for(var in ls(pattern="xyz"))
>>> # all of the vectors with pattern of "xyz"
>>> {
>>>   all <- union(all, var);
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> but the result is like this: ("xyzblabla1", "xyzblabla2", "abcxyz",
>>> ... ) --
>>> just a collection of the variable names, not the union of their
>>> elements.
>>>
>>> How can I solve this problem?
>>>
>>> thanks!
>>>
>>> Leon
>>>
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