mathgraph (version 0.9-5)

commontail: Common Strings in Tail

Description

Takes a list of character vectors and returns the longest vector of strings that is common to the ends of all of the components in the list.

Usage

commontail(x)

Arguments

x

list of character vectors.

Value

• a character vector containing the common elements of the tails of all the components in x. The result is NULL if there are no common elements.

Details

This is useful to get the class that is common to a number of objects.

References

S Poetry, Patrick J. Burns

See Also

inherits, intersect

Examples

commontail(list(c("subA", "cls1"), c("subB", "subA", "cls1")))
commontail(list(c("subA", "cls2"), c("subB", "subA", "cls1")))