Find complement of a data frame (anti - join)

Question

I have two data frames(df and df1). df1 is subset of df. I want to get a data frame which is complement of df1 in df, i.e. return rows of the first data set which are not ma

Answer 1

Another option by creating a function negate_match_df by manipulating the code of match_df of plyr package.

library(plyr)
negate_match_df <- function (x, y, on = NULL) 
{
if (is.null(on)) {
    on <- intersect(names(x), names(y))
    message("Matching on: ", paste(on, collapse = ", "))
}
keys <- join.keys(x, y, on)
x[!keys$x %in% keys$y, , drop = FALSE]
}

Data

df <- read.table(text ="heads
row1
row2
row3
row4
row5",header=TRUE)

df1 <- read.table(text ="heads
row3
row5",header=TRUE)

Output

negate_match_df(df,df1)