comparelists {made4}R Documentation

Return the intersect, difference and union between 2 vectors

Description

This is a very simple function which compares two vectors, x and y. It returns the intersection and unique lists. It is useful for comparing two genelists.

Usage

comparelists(dx,dy, ...)
print.comparelists(x, ...)

Arguments

dx,dy A vector
x An object from comparelists
... further arguments passed to or from other methods

Details

reports on the intersect, difference and union between two lists.

Value

An object of class comparelists:

intersect Vector containing the intersect between x and y
Set.Diff Vector containing the elements unique to X obtained using setdiff
XinY Numeric, indicating the number of elements of x in y
YinX Numeric, indicating the number of elements of y in x
Length.X Numeric, the number of elements in x
Length.Y Numeric, the number of elements in y
... Further arguments passed to or from other methods

Author(s)

Aedin Culhane

See Also

See Also intersect, setdiff

Examples


a<-sample(LETTERS,20)
b<-sample(LETTERS,10)
z<-comparelists(a,b)
z$Set.Diff
z$intersect
[Package made4 version 0.6 Index]