On Saturday 06 October 2007, Marc Schwartz wrote: > [...] > > intersectList <- function(x) > { > res <- table(unlist(sapply(x, unique))) > names(res[res == length(x)]) > } > > > In the first line, I use unique() to ensure that if the same letter > appears more than once in the same list element, it is not included in > the result set in error, such as in 'L' here: > > > L <- list(a = c("a", "b", "b"), b = c("d", "b", "a"), c = c("d", "a")) > > > L > > $a > [1] "a" "b" "b" > > $b > [1] "d" "b" "a" > > $c > [1] "d" "a" > > So: > > intersectList(aa) > > [1] "e" > > > intersectList(L) > > [1] "a"
Neat :o) Of course, this was the right way to follow... in my particular case the elements are always unique but generally this is the best approach indeed. Thanks Marc, Adrian -- Adrian Dusa Romanian Social Data Archive 1, Schitu Magureanu Bd 050025 Bucharest sector 5 Romania Tel./Fax: +40 21 3126618 \ +40 21 3120210 / int.101 ______________________________________________ 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.