Thanks for the help, I tried to apply this to a vector with two columns, well I suppose it is not a vector but for instance like this:
[,1] [,2] [1,] 1 2 [2,] 2 3 [3,] 1 2 [4,] 1 2 [5,] 3 4 and return a vector : 1,2,1,1,3, so that it recognises both columns together. I tried match(x, unique(x)) as earlier suggested but this returns a vector of length 10 as opposed to 5, even though unique(x) does remove the repeated rows. Sorry if this is confusing, I am trying to do as originally posted but with 2 columns Thanks -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Creating-vectors-tp2321440p2322646.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.