(cond1 | cond2 | cond3 | ...) means "is one or more of a bunch of conditions true?"any(cond1, cond2, cond3 ....) means "are any of the conditions true?"As such aren't we saying the same thing here?
Are there any advantages of using one over the other?
| is vectorized--it returns a result with the same length as the longest input and will recycle if needed.
any looks at all the inputs and returns result of length 1.
|| make only a single comparison, using the first elements of its inputs regardless of their length, and returns a result of length 1.
x = c(FALSE, TRUE, FALSE)
y = c(FALSE, FALSE, FALSE)
any(x, y)
# [1] TRUE
## There's a TRUE in there somewhere
x | y
# [1] FALSE TRUE FALSE
## Only the 2nd index of the vectors contains a TRUE
x || y
# [1] FALSE
## The first position of the vectors does not contain a TRUE.
If the inputs are all of length one, then x1 | x2 | x3 is equivalent to x1 || x2 || x3 is equivalent to any(x1, x2, x3). Otherwise, no guarantee.