[R] Fast Removing Duplicates from Every Column

[Petr Pikal]

Hi

I have no idea how Test data look like. However help pages of 
functions

data.frame()
as.data.frame()
str()

and maybe few others can help you find how to change objects to data 
frames.

HTH
Petr


On 16 Jan 2007 at 10:36, Bert Jacobs wrote:

From:           	"Bert Jacobs" <b.jacobs at pandora.be>
To:             	"'Petr Pikal'" <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>
Subject:        	RE: [R] Fast Removing Duplicates from Every Column
Date sent:      	Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:36:42 +0100

> Hi Petr,
> 
> Thx for answeringen me on the question below.
> Actually I could use this line of code to get my problem solved.
> 
> Test = apply(X=my_data, MARGIN=2, FUN=unique)
> 
> Now I was wondering how to transform 'Test' into a dataframe, while
> there are different rows implied.
> 
> Thx,
> Bert
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Petr Pikal [mailto:petr.pikal at precheza.cz] 
> Sent: 05 January 2007 11:51
> To: Bert Jacobs; 'R help list'
> Subject: Re: [R] Fast Removing Duplicates from Every Column
> 
> Hi
> 
> I am not sure if I understand how do you want to select unique items.
> 
> with
>  sapply(DF, function(x) !duplicated(x))
> you can get data frame with TRUE when an item in particular column is
> unique and FALSE in opposite. However then you need to choose which
> rows to keep or discard
> 
> e.g.
> 
> DF[rowSums(sapply(comp, function(x) !duplicated(x)))>1,]
> 
> selects all rows in which are 2 or more unique values.
> 
> HTH
> Petr
> 
> 
> On 5 Jan 2007 at 9:54, Bert Jacobs wrote:
> 
> From:           	"Bert Jacobs" <b.jacobs at pandora.be>
> To:             	"'R help list'" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Date sent:      	Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:54:17 +0100
> Subject:        	Re: [R] Fast Removing Duplicates from Every Column
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm looking for some lines of code that does the following:
> > I have a dataframe with 160 Columns and a number of rows (max 30):
> > 
> >   Col1 Col2 Col3 ... Col 159 Col 160 
> > Row 1 	0 	0 	LD ... 0	   VD 
> > Row 2 	HD 	0 	0 	 0 	   MD 
> > Row 3 	0 	HD 	HD 	 0       LD 
> > Row 4 	LD 	HD 	HD 	 0 	   LD 
> > ...		...
> > LastRow	HD    HD    LD     0       MD
> > 
> > 
> > Now I want a dataframe that looks like this. As you see all
> > duplicates are removed. Can this dataframe be constructed in a fast
> > way?
> > 
> >   Col1 Col2 Col3 ... Col 159 Col 160 
> > Row 1       0    0    LD       0	    VD
> > Row 2     	HD   HD   0        0        MD
> > Row 3     	LD   0    HD       0        LD
> > 
> > Thx for helping me out.
> > Bert
> > 
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> 
> 

Petr Pikal
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