perfectionism

jim holtman <jholtman <at> gmail.com> writes:

match(f, names(z))

[1] 2 3

Jim, thanks so much, that's right on.

Patrick, thanks to you too, but yours is not the same as what I asked:

z <- c(3,4,5,4)
names(z)<- c("a","b","c","b")
z[f]

b c 
4 5

Yours returns the actual values in z, not the indexes in z, i.e., not

[1] 2 3