[R] matching pairs regardless of order

[jim holtman]

You are going to have to order your values for comparison.  Use
'strsplit' to split on the comma, then rejoin the data items based on
the sorting order.

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Juliane Struve
<juliane_struve at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I am using match() to match pairs of locations, e.g. trip="loc1,loc2" from a list of such pairs, e.g. list=("loc1,loc2", "loc1,loc3", "loc2,loc3","loc2,loc1").
>
> In this example match() will match "trip" with the first element of "list", but not the 4th, because the order is reversed.
>
> How can I get a match with both ?
>
> Many thanks for any help,
>
> Juliane
>
>
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