You need to get() their elements instead of merely using variable names. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: +86-(0)10-82509086 Fax: +86-(0)10-82509086 Mobile: +86-15810805877 Homepage: http://www.yihui.name School of Statistics, Room 1037, Mingde Main Building, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Leon Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a question about "union". "union" handles two vectors' elements to > get their union, but I have many vectors and I want to get the union of all > of them. So I wrote a loop: > > all <-c(); > for(var in ls(pattern="xyz")) > # all of the vectors with pattern of "xyz" > { > all <- union(all, var); > } > > > but the result is like this: ("xyzblabla1", "xyzblabla2", "abcxyz", ... ) -- > just a collection of the variable names, not the union of their elements. > > How can I solve this problem? > > thanks! > > Leon > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.