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I just stumbled across a really useful infix function in R: %in%. It compares two vectors and returs a logical vector if there is a match or not for its left operand. Let us look at some examples:
> 1:10 %in% c(1,3,5,9) [1] TRUE FALSE TRUE FALSE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE FALSE
\(x\) without \(y\):
> "%w/o%" <- function(x, y) x[!x %in% y] > (1:10) %w/o% c(3,7,12) [1] 1 2 4 5 6 8 9 10
In my particular use-case, I wanted to implement sampling without replacement in a loop, i.e. removing the sampled values of the previous iteration:
subsample <- sample(x=observations, size=sample_size) ... observations <- observations[!observations %in% subsample]
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