Dear Gundala, As Jim Holtman suggested in a previous post, match() should do the job:
repo <- c("AAA", "AAT", "AAC", "AAG", "ATA", "ATT") qr <- c("AAC", "ATT", "ATT") match(qr,repo) [1] 3 6 6 HTH, Jorge On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Gundala Viswanath <gunda...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear all, > > > I tried to find index in repo given a query with this: > > > repo <- c("AAA", "AAT", "AAC", "AAG", "ATA", "ATT") > > qr <- c("AAC", "ATT", "ATT") > > which(repo%in%qr) > [1] 3 6 > > > Note that the query contain repeating elements, yet > the output of which only returns unique. > > How can I make it returning > > [1] 3 6 6 > > instead? > > > - Gundala Viswanath > Jakarta - Indonesia > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[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.