arules (version 1.7-6)

sets: Set Operations

Description

Provides the generic functions and the methods for the set operations union(), intersect(), setequal(), setdiff() and is.element() on sets of associations (e.g., rules, itemsets) and itemMatrix.

Usage

# S3 method for itemMatrix
union(x, y, ...)
# S3 method for associations
union(x, y, ...)
# S4 method for associations
union(x, y, ...)
# S4 method for itemMatrix
union(x, y, ...)
# S3 method for itemMatrix
intersect(x, y, ...)
# S3 method for associations
intersect(x, y, ...)
# S4 method for associations
intersect(x, y, ...)
# S4 method for itemMatrix
intersect(x, y, ...)
# S3 method for itemMatrix
setequal(x, y, ...)
# S3 method for associations
setequal(x, y, ...)
# S4 method for associations
setequal(x, y, ...)
# S4 method for itemMatrix
setequal(x, y, ...)
# S3 method for itemMatrix
setdiff(x, y, ...)
# S3 method for associations
setdiff(x, y, ...)
# S4 method for associations
setdiff(x, y, ...)
# S4 method for itemMatrix
setdiff(x, y, ...)
# S3 method for itemMatrix
is.element(el, set, ...)
# S3 method for associations
is.element(el, set, ...)
# S4 method for associations
is.element(el, set, ...)
# S4 method for itemMatrix
is.element(el, set, ...)

Value

union(), intersect(), setequal() and setdiff()

return an object of the same class as x and y.

is.element() returns a logic vector of length el indicating for each element if it is included in set.

Arguments

x, y, el, set

sets of associations or itemMatrix objects.

...

Other arguments are unused.

Author

Michael Hahsler

Details

Technical note: All S4 methods for set operations are defined for the class name "ANY" in the signature, so they should work for all S4 classes for which the following methods are available: match(), length() and unique().

See Also

Other associations functions: abbreviate(), associations-class, c(), duplicated(), extract, inspect(), is.closed(), is.generator(), is.maximal(), is.redundant(), is.significant(), is.superset(), itemsets-class, match(), rules-class, sample(), size(), sort(), unique()

Other itemMatrix and transactions functions: abbreviate(), crossTable(), c(), duplicated(), extract, hierarchy, image(), inspect(), is.superset(), itemFrequencyPlot(), itemFrequency(), itemMatrix-class, match(), merge(), random.transactions(), sample(), size(), supportingTransactions(), tidLists-class, transactions-class, unique()

Examples

data("Adult")

## mine some rules
r <- apriori(Adult)

## take 2 subsets
r1 <- r[1:10]
r2 <- r[6:15]

union(r1, r2)
intersect(r1, r2)
setequal(r1, r2)