R: Find Super and Subsets

is.superset {arules} | R Documentation

## Find Super and Subsets

### Description

Provides the generic functions and the S4 methods `is.subset` and `is.superset` for finding super or subsets in associations and itemMatrix objects.

### Usage

    is.subset(x, y = NULL, proper = FALSE, sparse = TRUE, ...)
    is.superset(x, y = NULL, proper = FALSE, sparse = TRUE, ...)

### Arguments

`x, y` | associations or itemMatrix objects. If `y = NULL`, the super or subset structure within set `x` is calculated.
`proper` | a logical indicating if all or just proper super or subsets.
`sparse` | a logical indicating if a sparse (ngCMatrix) rather than a dense logical matrix should be returned. Sparse computation preserves a significant amount of memory and is much faster for large sets.
`...` | currently unused.

### Details

looks for each element in `x` which elements in `y` are supersets or subsets. Note that the method can be very slow and memory intensive if `x` and/or `y` contain many elements.

For rules, the union of lhs and rhs is used a the set of items.

### Value

returns a logical matrix or a sparse ngCMatrix (for `sparse=TRUE`) with `length(x)` rows and `length(y)` columns. Each logical row vector represents which elements in `y` are supersets (subsets) of the corresponding element in `x`. If either `x` or `y` have length zero, `NULL` is returned instead of a matrix.

### Author(s)

Michael Hahsler and Ian Johnson

### See Also

`associations-class`, `itemMatrix-class`

### Examples

    data("Adult")
    set <- eclat(Adult, parameter = list(supp = 0.8))

    ### find the supersets of each itemset in set
    is.superset(set, set)
    is.superset(set, set, sparse = FALSE)

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