[R] Doing a Task Without Using a For Loop

[Claudia Beleites]

> This seems to work but is horribly slow (some files I am working with have
> over 500,000 lines). Can anyone suggest a faster way of doing this, perhaps
> a way that does not use a for loop? Thanks.
If the table solutions don't work or take forever with your real data, have a 
look into the wiki:
http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:data-frames:count_and_extract_unique_rows

Claudia

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