comparelists {made4} | R Documentation

## Return the intersect, difference and union between 2 vectors

### Description

This is a very simple function which compares two vectors, x and y. It returns the intersection and unique lists. It is useful for comparing two genelists.

### Usage

    comparelists(dx,dy, ...)
    ## S3 method for class 'comparelists'
    print(x, ...)

### Arguments

`dx,dy` | A vector.
`x` | An object from `comparelists`.
`...` | further arguments passed to or from other methods.

### Details

reports on the intersect, difference and union between two lists.

### Value

An object of class `comparelists`:

`intersect` | Vector containing the intersect between x and y
`Set.Diff` | Vector containing the elements unique to X obtained using `setdiff`
`XinY` | Numeric, indicating the number of elements of x in y
`YinX` | Numeric, indicating the number of elements of y in x
`Length.X` | Numeric, the number of elements in x
`Length.Y` | Numeric, the number of elements in y
`...` | Further arguments passed to or from other methods

### Author(s)

Aedin Culhane

### See Also

See also `intersect`, `setdiff`

### Examples

    a<-sample(LETTERS,20)
    b<-sample(LETTERS,10)
    z<-comparelists(a,b)
    z$Set.Diff
    z$intersect

[Package made4 version 1.68.0 Index]