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Is there function in R to find the common characters in multiple vectors (of different lengths). For example, if I have 3 vectors…
a1 <- LETTERS[1:7]
a2 <- LETTERS[4:8]
a3 <- LETTERS[2:10]
a1
# [1] "A" "B" "C" "D" "E" "F" "G"
a2
# [1] "D" "E" "F" "G" "H"
a3
# [1] "B" "C" "D" "E" "F" "G" "H" "I" "J"
I can think of a messy solutions…
intersect(intersect(a1,a2),a3)
# [1] "D" "E" "F" "G"
Problem is, I have around 8 or 9 vectors. Is there a better way to this?
Yes: