Re: [R] comparing 2 long lists in R

2015-09-24 Thread Shi, Tao via R-help
Bogdan, I would look into bioconductor for packages handling this type choromosomal range data. cntools is one poped into my mind. Tao On Thursday, September 24, 2015 12:59 PM, Sarah Goslee wrote: merge() most likely, but: are these really lists in the R sense? The correct answer depe

Re: [R] comparing 2 long lists in R

2015-09-24 Thread Bogdan Tanasa
Dear Bert and Sarah, thank you for your suggestions. Yes, I came across "dplyr" that has a few functions already implemented, thanks again ! On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Bert Gunter wrote: > Also, in addition to what Sarah told you, have you checked on the > Bioconductor site, as this sounds

Re: [R] comparing 2 long lists in R

2015-09-24 Thread Bert Gunter
Also, in addition to what Sarah told you, have you checked on the Bioconductor site, as this sounds like the sort of thing that they may well have something for already. ... and you've posted here often enough that you shouldn't still be posting HTML and you should know about toy examples! Cheers

Re: [R] comparing 2 long lists in R

2015-09-24 Thread Sarah Goslee
merge() most likely, but: are these really lists in the R sense? The correct answer depends on what the format actually is; you need to use dput() or some other unambiguous way of providing sample data. Without a reproducible example that includes some sample data provided using dput() (fake is f

[R] comparing 2 long lists in R

2015-09-24 Thread Bogdan Tanasa
Dear all, please could you advise on a computationally quick way to compare and merge 2 long lists in R; the lists are of the following type, for example : <> in list 1 : chromosome, coordinateA, coordinateB, value1 chromosome, coordinateC, coordinateC, value2, etc <> in list 2 : chromosome, c