I am a programming newbie attempting to compare two matrices. In case an element from first column in mat1 matches any element from first column in mat2, then I want that matching element in mat1 to be replaced with the neighboor (same row different column) to the match in mat2.
INPUT:
mat1<-matrix(letters[1:5])
mat2<-cbind(letters[4:8],1:5)
> mat1
[,1]
[1,] "a"
[2,] "b"
[3,] "c"
[4,] "d"
[5,] "e"
> mat2
[,1] [,2]
[1,] "d" "1"
[2,] "e" "2"
[3,] "f" "3"
[4,] "g" "4"
[5,] "h" "5"
wished OUTPUT:
> mat3
[,1]
[1,] "a"
[2,] "b"
[3,] "c"
[4,] "1"
[5,] "2"
I have attempted the following without succeeding:
> for(x in mat1){mat3<-ifelse(x==mat2,mat2[which(x==mat2),2],mat1)}
> mat3
[,1] [,2]
[1,] "a" "a"
[2,] "2" "b"
[3,] "c" "c"
[4,] "d" "d"
[5,] "e" "e"
Any advice will be very appreciated. Have spent a whole day without making it work. It doesn't matter to me if the elements are in a matrix or a data frame.
Thanks.