November 2016
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We sometimes end up with duplicate cases in our datasets and want to retain only one among the duplicates.
Create a sample data frame:
> salary <- c(20000, 30000, 25000, 40000, 30000, 34000, 30000)
> family.size <- c(4,3,2,2,3,4,3)
> car <- c("Luxury", "Compact", "Midsize", "Luxury", "Compact", "Compact", "Compact")
> prospect <- data.frame(salary, family.size, car)The unique() function can do the job. It takes a vector or data frame as an argument and returns an object of the same type as its argument but with duplicates removed.
Get unique values:
> prospect.cleaned <- unique(prospect) > nrow(prospect) [1] 7 > nrow(prospect.cleaned) [1] 5
The unique() function takes a vector or data ...
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