Simple question on finding duplicates

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From: David L Carlson [mailto:dcarlson at tamu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 3:23 PM
To: 'Jeff'; 'r-help at r-project.org'
Subject: RE: [R] Simple question on finding duplicates

duplicate <- ifelse(c(0, a$col[-length(a$col)])==c(a$col), 1, 0)

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David L Carlson
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4352

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From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
project.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 3:06 PM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] Simple question on finding duplicates


   I'm  trying  to find duplicate values in a column of a data frame.
For
   example, dataframe (a) below has two 3's. I would like to mark

each

value of
   each row as either not being a duplicate of the one before (0), or
as a
   duplicate (1) - for example, as in dataframe (b). In SPSS, I would
simply
   compare each value to it's "lagged" value, but I can't figure out
how to do
   this with R.
   Can someone point me in the right direction?
   Thanks
   a <- data.frame( col1 = c(1,2,3,3,4))
   b <- data.frame( col1 = c(1,2,3,3,4), duplicate = c(0,0,0,1,0))