R – OR Operator

R – OR Logical Operator

R – OR Operator | is used to perform logical OR operation between two boolean operands.

| symbol is used for Logical OR Operator in R Language.

OR Operator | takes two boolean values as operands and returns the logical OR of the two operands.

The syntax of OR Operator with the two boolean operands is

operand1 | operand2

Truth Table

The following truth table provides the output of OR operator for different values of operands.

operand1	operand2	operand1 | operand2
TRUE	TRUE	TRUE
TRUE	FALSE	TRUE
FALSE	TRUE	TRUE
FALSE	FALSE	FALSE

OR Operation returns TRUE if any of the operands is TRUE, else it returns FALSE.

Example

In the following R program, we will take different boolean values for operands and find the result of OR operation on these operands.

example.r

x <- TRUE
y <- TRUE
result <- x | y
cat(x, " | ", y, " = ", result, "\n")

x <- TRUE
y <- FALSE
result <- x | y
cat(x, " | ", y, " = ", result, "\n")

x <- FALSE
y <- TRUE
result <- x | y
cat(x, " | ", y, " = ", result, "\n")

x <- FALSE
y <- FALSE
result <- x | y
cat(x, " | ", y, " = ", result, "\n")

Output

tutorialkart$ Rscript example.r
TRUE  |  TRUE  =  TRUE 
TRUE  |  FALSE  =  TRUE 
FALSE  |  TRUE  =  TRUE 
FALSE  |  FALSE  =  FALSE 

Conclusion

Concluding this R Tutorial, we learned what R Logical OR Operator is, and the output of OR Operation for different boolean values as operands, with the help of an example program.