[R] subset with variable number of subset arguments

[Brar Piening]

I've got a big data.frame from which I need to extract data based on a variable number of Id's (InfCode).
Until now I've been using the following dull solution as I never needed to search for more than 5 codes.

Now my needs have increased faster than my R skills did and I need to call my function with about 25 values for x.

There has to be a *apply or even simpler solution which (after RTM) I'm not able to figure out.

Can anybody direct me to a possible solution?

Regards,

Brar


GetInfCodeSubset <- function(set, x){
	if(1 == length(x))
		return(subset(set, (set$InfCode == x[1])))
	else if(2 == length(x))
		return(subset(set, (set$InfCode == x[1]) | (set$InfCode == x[2])))
	else if(3 == length(x))
		return(subset(set, (set$InfCode == x[1]) | (set$InfCode == x[2]) | (set$InfCode == x[3])))
	else if(4 == length(x))
		return(subset(set, (set$InfCode == x[1]) | (set$InfCode == x[2]) | (set$InfCode == x[3]) | (set$InfCode == x[4])))
	else if(5 == length(x))
		return(subset(set, (set$InfCode == x[1]) | (set$InfCode == x[2]) | (set$InfCode == x[3]) | (set$InfCode == x[4]) | (set$InfCode == x[5])))
	else if(6 == length(x))
		return(subset(set, (set$InfCode == x[1]) | (set$InfCode == x[2]) | (set$InfCode == x[3]) | (set$InfCode == x[4]) | (set$InfCode == x[5]) | (set$InfCode == x[6])))
	else stop("Too many elements in x")
}

set <- data.frame(PatId = c(1:100), InfCode = rep(c(1:20), 5))

GetInfCodeSubset(set, c(1,3,9))

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