[R] Selecting distinct values from a column
Marc Schwartz
MSchwartz at MedAnalytics.com
Fri Nov 19 21:47:51 CET 2004
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:01 +0000, Ann Huxtable wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there an easy way (other than the obvious for loop?) to select distinct
> values from a column vector?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Ann
Presuming that by 'distinct' you mean 'unique', see ?unique
> MyVec <- rep(1:5, times = c(1:5))
> MyVec
[1] 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5
> unique(MyVec)
[1] 1 2 3 4 5
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
More information about the R-help
mailing list