[R] what is the "NOT IN" operator

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Thu Oct 7 03:46:07 CEST 2010


On Oct 6, 2010, at 9:03 PM, Christian Raschke wrote:

> Put the "!" in front of the whole expression, not just the %in%
> function. I.e.
>
> sub <- mydata[!(mydata$group %in% c("A", "B", "E", "G")),]

You can also look at the match help page where %in% and its negation,  
%w/o% , are illustrated.

-- 
David.

>
> Christian
>
> On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 09:17 +1000, Emily Deomano wrote:
>> Good day,
>> I need to subset a data by removing several rows.  I know the %in%  
>> operator, i.e.
>>
>> sub <- mydata[group %in% c("A","B","E","G"), ]
>>
>> What I need is the opposite, that is remove rows and/or columns.   
>> What is the operator for "NOT IN"?  I tried  (i)! %in% and (ii) ^%in 
>> % and both resulted in a "could not find function" error.
>>
>>
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