[R] perfectionism

[jim holtman]

Try this:

> z <- c(1, 2, 3, 2)
> names(z) <- c("a","b","c","b")
> f <- c("b","c")
> match(f, names(z))
[1] 2 3
> # if you want the names
> x <- match(f, names(z))
> names(x) <- f
> x
b c
2 3



On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Jack Tanner <ihok at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have a named vector:
>
>> z <- c(1, 2, 3, 2)
>> names(z) <- c("a","b","c","b")
>> f <- c("b","c")
>
> I want to know the index in z of the first occurrence of each of the values in f.
>
> One implementation is
>
>> sapply(f, function(x) which(names(z)==x)[1])
> b c
> 2 3
>
> Is which() smart enough to stop when it finds in z the first occurrence of every
> value from f, or does it search through all the values in z only to report the
> first one?
>
> Are some more elegant ways of writing this code?
>
> Just curious.
>
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Jim Holtman
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