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A subset consists of those elements selected from a larger set of elements, by their position in the larger set or other features, such as their value.

Definition:

From Wikipedia:

a set A is a subset of a set B, or equivalently B is a superset of A, if A is 'contained' inside B, that is, all elements of A are also elements of B.

Uses:

  • In r, subset is a function that selects a subset of elements from a vector, matrix, or data frame, given some logical expression (caution: subset drops incomplete cases; see How to subset data in R without losing NA rows?). However, for programmatic use (as opposed to interactive use) it is better to use the \[ (or [[) operators or the filter function from dplyr. substring is used to find subsets of character strings.
  • In python, a subset of an array can be obtained with array[indices].