Milton Huang wrote:
> Dear list members:
>
> I am looking for an elegant (or efficient) way to accomplish the following:
>
> take a large boolean vector and fill the TRUE values with the values from a
> smaller boolean vector that has a length that is the number of TRUE values of
> the large vector.
>
> Example:
>
> large<- c(FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, FALSE,
> FALSE,
> TRUE, FALSE)
>
> small<- c(TRUE, FALSE, TRUE)
>
> desired output = c(FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, *TRUE*, FALSE, FALSE, *FALSE*,
> FALSE,
> FALSE, FALSE, *TRUE*, FALSE)
>
>
large[which(large)] = small
# large[which(large)] = paste("*", small, "*", sep="") to see it's as
you specify
?which
vQ
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