gene column matching in R

Question

[Kritika]

hello all i have three file only contain gene name in all three flle file 1 Colunm1 gene_name XXX YYY

file2 Column1 Gene_name XXX YYY similar for file three

i want to find the common gene between all the 3 files using R can anyone help

[Devon Ryan]

What have you tried? You first tag, "match", is a possible solution, in fact...

[Kritika]

i did with common_first <- file1$gene_name %in% file2$gene_name this gave me logical values i need gene_name in my common_first vector

[Benn]

Try this:

common_first <- file1[file1$gene_name %in% file2$gene_name,]

[Kritika]

oh thanks b.nota i remember i did this before too for one of my analysis.. Thanks alot...