bc.b: Broadcasted Boolean Operations

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Broadcasted Boolean Operations

Description

The bc.b() function performs broadcasted logical (or Boolean) operations on 2 arrays.

Please note that these operations will treat the input as logical.
Therefore, something like bc.b(1, 2, "==") returns TRUE, because both 1 and 2 are TRUE when treated as logical.

For regular relational operators, see bc.rel.

Usage

bc.b(x, y, op, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'ANY'
bc.b(x, y, op)

Arguments

x, y	conformable arrays of type logical, numeric, or raw.
op	a single string, giving the operator. Supported Boolean operators: &, |, xor, nand, ==, !=, <, >, <=, >=.
...	further arguments passed to or from methods.

Details

bc.b() efficiently casts the input to logical.
Since the input is treated as logical, the following equalities hold for bc.b():

• "==" is equivalent to (x & y) | (!x & !y), but faster;

• "!=" is equivalent to xor(x, y);

• "<" is equivalent to (!x & y), but faster;

• ">" is equivalent to (x & !y), but faster;

• "<=" is equivalent to (!x & y) | (y == x), but faster;

• ">=" is equivalent to (x & !y) | (y == x), but faster.
  
  

Value

A logical array as a result of the broadcasted Boolean operation.

See Also

broadcast_operators

Examples

x.dim <- c(4:2)
x.len <- prod(x.dim)
x.data <- sample(c(TRUE, FALSE, NA), x.len, TRUE)
x <- array(x.data, x.dim)
y <- array(1:50, c(4,1,1))

bc.b(x, y, "&")
bc.b(x, y, "|")
bc.b(x, y, "xor")
bc.b(x, y, "nand")
bc.b(x, y, "==")
bc.b(x, y, "!=")

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