> On 6 Aug 2015, at 15:40, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Define "goodness of match" . For exact matches, see ?"==" , all.equal, etc.
Fair point. I would define it as a number that tells me how likely it is that the same (noisy) process produced both lists. BW F > > Bert > > On Thursday, August 6, 2015, Federico Calboli <federico.calb...@helsinki.fi> > wrote: > Hi All, > > let’s assume I have a vector of letters drawn only once from the alphabet: > > x = sample(letters, 15, replace = F) > x > [1] "z" "t" "g" "l" "u" "d" "w" "x" "a" "q" "k" "j" "f" "n" “v" > > y = x[c(1:7,9:8, 10:12, 14, 15, 13)] > > I would now like to test how good a match y is for x. Obviously I can > transform the letters in numbers and use a rank test, but I was left > wondering whether this is the only solution and whether there are more > appropriate solutions that are already implemented in R (I am not going to > reinvent the wheel if I can avoid it). > > BW > > F > > > -- > Federico Calboli > Ecological Genetics Research Unit > Department of Biosciences > PO Box 65 (Biocenter 3, Viikinkaari 1) > FIN-00014 University of Helsinki > Finland > > federico.calb...@helsinki.fi > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > > > -- > Bert Gunter > > "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is > certainly not wisdom." > -- Clifford Stoll > -- Federico Calboli Ecological Genetics Research Unit Department of Biosciences PO Box 65 (Biocenter 3, Viikinkaari 1) FIN-00014 University of Helsinki Finland federico.calb...@helsinki.fi ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.