Negation of the %in% operator, see ?match.
%notin% is the negation of %in%, which returns a logical vector indicating if there is a non-match or not for its left operand.
x %notin% tablevector or NULL: the values to be matched.
vector or NULL: the values to be matched against.
A logical vector, indicating if a non-match was located for each element of x: thus the values are TRUE or FALSE and never NA.