[R] R freezing issue when checking to see if variable belongs to two different vectors

[Bert Gunter]

It might help if you specify your hardware, OS (presumably Windows?)
and version, and your R version. Also possibly how large your vectors
are and what other processes you have running.

Other than that, I have no clue, of course.

Cheers,
Bert




Bert Gunter

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On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Joel Stewart <jstewart at provplan.org> wrote:
> I often find myself trying to get a quick assessment of how much of one vector is inside of another vector. I almost always try this with variables that are some sort of identifier, like a client id number or an SSN. I typically do this:
>
> table( DF1$Identifier %in% DF2$Identifier)
>
> This will return a count of True and False logical responses. However, sometimes when I try to do this my computer will freeze and I am unable to stop or escape the process, requiring me to shutdown R via the task manager. I was wondering if anybody else experiences this and, if so, why this might be happening.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Joel
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