[R] Question about setdiff()

[Jeff Newmiller]

About time for you to adjust your expectations... looks right to me from both a mathematical sense and as the functions are designed.
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On June 1, 2014 11:57:42 PM PDT, "Raphael Päbst" <raphael.paebst at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello everyone, I have a question which is probably rooted in my lack
>of understanding when it comes to math.
>
>I just did the following:
>
>v <- c(1:20)
>w <- c(11:30)
>setdiff(v, w)
>
>and got:
>1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
>
>Then I did the following:
>setdiff(w, v)
>and got, not surprisingly:
>21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
>
>Now I was originally expecting to get bot with the first call of
>setdiff(v, w) and couldn't find any reason not to expect this from
>?setdiff()
>
>Am I missing somethin vital here or does setdiff() always give me the
>elements of the first set that are not in the second one and not those
>which are exclusive to either one, just dropping the ones in the
>intersection of both sets?
>
>Many Thanks in advance
>
>Raphael
>
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