[R] Is there a convenient function that can check if a vector is a subset of another one?

[Pierre Kleiber]

all(x %in% y) should do what you want:

 > x <- 2:5
 > y <- 1:10
 > all(x %in% y)
[1] TRUE
 > all(y %in% x)
[1] FALSE
 >

Cheers, Pierre

Terry Mu wrote:
> x <- 2:5
> y <- 1:10
> 
> Is there something like:
> 
> is.subset(x, y) == T
> 
> Thank you,
> 
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