Try this: subset(merge(as.data.frame(A), cbind(as.data.frame(B), ID=1), all = T), is.na(ID), select = -ID)
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:39 AM, dreamworx <andy_wools...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I have 2 matrices. One which contains a complete set of row combinations. > Another which contains a subset of the first. What I would like to extract > is the rows which are in the first but not repeated in the second. For > instance if the following were my two matrices, > > A > [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] > [1,] 1 2 3 4 > [2,] 1 2 3 5 > [3,] 1 2 3 6 > [4,] 1 2 3 7 > [5,] 1 2 3 8 > [6,] 1 2 3 9 > > > B > [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] > [1,] 1 2 3 4 > [2,] 1 2 3 5 > [3,] 1 2 3 6 > [4,] 1 2 3 9 > > > I would like to extract the following, > > [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] > [1,] 1 2 3 7 > [2,] 1 2 3 8 > > I would like to know if there is a simple solution to this problem? If I > added the matrices and used the unique function, could I track which rows > have been deleted? Otherwise, I can only think of performing a loop with an > if statement. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Extracting-only-the-non-repeated-rows-of-matrices-tp24353933p24353933.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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