Ingmar Visser wrote: > does this do what you want? > > sapply(y,function(y){which(y==x)}) > Maybe, but match(Y,X) would be more to the point.
> hth, Ingmar > > On 28 Nov 2007, at 15:53, Serguei Kaniovski wrote: > > >> Hallo, >> >> I have two vectors of different lengths which contain the same set of >> values: >> >> X < -c(2,6,1,7,4,3,5) >> Y <- c(1,1,6,4,6,1,4,1,2,3,6,6,1,2,4,4,5,4,1,7,6,6,4,4,7,1,2) >> >> How can I replace the values in Y with the index (!) of the >> corresponding >> values in X. So 2 appears in X in the first coordinate, so all 2�s >> in Y >> should be replaced by 1, etc. >> >> Thank you for your help, >> Serguei >> >> ________________________________________ >> Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) >> >> P.O.Box 91 Tel.: +43-1-7982601-231 >> 1103 Vienna, Austria Fax: +43-1-7989386 >> >> Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://www.wifo.ac.at/Serguei.Kaniovski >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- >> guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > Ingmar Visser > Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam > Roetersstraat 15 > 1018 WB Amsterdam > The Netherlands > t: +31-20-5256723 > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.