I am trying to create a unique combination of all elements from two vectors of different size in R.
For example, the first vector is
a <- c(\"ABC\
this maybe what you are after
> expand.grid(a,b)
Var1 Var2
1 ABC 2012-05-01
2 DEF 2012-05-01
3 GHI 2012-05-01
4 ABC 2012-05-02
5 DEF 2012-05-02
6 GHI 2012-05-02
7 ABC 2012-05-03
8 DEF 2012-05-03
9 GHI 2012-05-03
10 ABC 2012-05-04
11 DEF 2012-05-04
12 GHI 2012-05-04
13 ABC 2012-05-05
14 DEF 2012-05-05
15 GHI 2012-05-05
If the resulting order isn't what you want, you can sort afterwards. If you name the arguments to expand.grid
, they will become column names:
df = expand.grid(a = a, b = b)
df[order(df$a), ]
And expand.grid
generalizes to any number of input columns.