[R] remove duplicated row according to NA condition

K. Elo maillists at nic.fi
Wed May 28 17:43:13 CEST 2014


Hi!

How about trying this:

data[ data$col1!=data$col2 & !is.na(data$col3), ]

  col1 col2  col3
2    a    1 ST001
3    b    2 ST002

HTH, Kimmo


28.05.2014 15:35, jeff6868 wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I have a little problem in my R-code which seems be easy to solve, but I
> wasn't able to find the solution by myself for the moment.
> 
> Here's an example of the form of my data:
> 
> data <-
> data.frame(col1=c("a","a","b","b"),col2=c(1,1,2,2),col3=c(NA,"ST001","ST002",NA))
> 
> I would like to remove duplicated data based on the first two columns
> (col1,col2), but in both cases here, I would like to remove the duplicated
> row which is equal to NA in col3.
> 
> Here's the data.frame I would like to obtain:
> 
> data2 <- data.frame(col1=c("a","b"),col2=c(1,2),col3=c("ST001","ST002"))
> 
> I've been trying to mix duplicated() with is.na() but it doesn't work yet.
> 
> Can someone tell me the best and easiest way to do this?
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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