Thomas Frööjd wrote:
>Not sure i explained it good enough. Ill try with an example
>
>say
>
>x=[3,3,4,4,4,4,5,5,6,8]
>z=[3,4,4,5,5]
>
>what i want to get after removing z from x is something like
>x=[3,4,4,6,8]
>
>
>On Nov 15, 2007 3:29 PM, Charilaos Skiadas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>On Nov 15, 2007, at 9:15 AM, Thomas Frööjd wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>I have three vectors say x, y, z. One of them, x contains observations
>>>on a variable. To x I want to append all observations from y and
>>>remove all from z. For appending c() is easily used
>>>
>>>x <- c(x,y)
>>>
>>>But how do I remove all observations in z from x? You can say I am
>>>looking for the opposite of c().
>>>
>>>
>>If you are looking for the opposite of c, provided you want to remove
>>the first part of things, then perhaps this would work:
>>
>>z<-c(x,y)
>>z[-(1:length(x))]
>>
>>However, if you wanted to remove all appearances of elements of x
>>from c(x,y), regardless of whether those elements appear in the x
>>part of in the y part, I think you would want:
>>
>>z[!z %in% x]
>>
>>Probably there are other ways.
>>
>>Welcome to R!
>>
>>
>>
>>>Best regards
>>>
>>>
>>Haris Skiadas
>>Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
>>Hanover College
>>
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Hi,
you may try this :
x=[3,3,4,4,4,4,5,5,6,8]
z=c(3,4,4,5,5)
f1 <- function(vec,toremove){
+
+ for(elem in toremove){
+ temp <- grep(elem,vec)[1]
+ if(!is.na(temp)) vec <- vec[-temp]
+ }
+
+ return(vec)
+ }
> f1(x,z)
[1] 3 4 4 6 8
Regards,
Thibaut.
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