r - How to subset by additional condition in same column

Question

I'm going through some subsetting examples with mtcars, like here:

mtcars[mtcars$gear == 5, ]

now this returns me all the rows in mtcars where gear = 5, but how do I tell it for example to also return the rows where gear = 4 as well?

I have been looking at logical operators and such, but neither & nor | seems to work.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65891692/how-to-subset-by-additional-condition-in-same-column

Answer 1

We can use %in% instead of ==

mtcars[mtcars$gear %in%  c(4, 5), ]