Comparing character vectors in R to find unique and/or missing values

Question

I have two character vectors, x and y.

x <- c(\"a\", \"b\", \"c\", \"d\", \"e\", \"f\", \"g\")
y <- c(\"a\",      \"c\", \"d\", \"e\",      \"g\")
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Answer 1

setdiff(x,y)

Will do the job for you.