It might help if you specify your hardware, OS (presumably Windows?) and version, and your R version. Also possibly how large your vectors are and what other processes you have running.
Other than that, I have no clue, of course. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Joel Stewart <jstew...@provplan.org> wrote: > I often find myself trying to get a quick assessment of how much of one > vector is inside of another vector. I almost always try this with variables > that are some sort of identifier, like a client id number or an SSN. I > typically do this: > > table( DF1$Identifier %in% DF2$Identifier) > > This will return a count of True and False logical responses. However, > sometimes when I try to do this my computer will freeze and I am unable to > stop or escape the process, requiring me to shutdown R via the task manager. > I was wondering if anybody else experiences this and, if so, why this might > be happening. > > Thanks in advance, > > Joel > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.