How to check if some categorical variables are within a column in R?-CodePudding

I am trying to write an if statement that checks if one OR another categorical variable is within a column in my dataframe. Therefore, I am using %in%. It works perfectly fine when I have 1 variable:

if("setosa" %in% iris$Species){
  print("hi")
}
[1] "hi"

But I cannot use it if I have a condition OR.

# it should return TRUE because "setosa" is within the column Species
if(("setosa" | "new") %in% iris$Species){
  print("hi")
}

Error in "setosa" | "virginica" : 
  operations are possible only for numeric, logical or complex types

Does anybody know how to do it or if I can use another function to check if my if statement is TRUE or FALSE?

Thanks in advance

CodePudding user response：

Put the conditions in a vector and check if any is true (for OR, use all for AND) any(c("setosa","new") %in% iris$Species).