which element is duplicated?
On 13/11/2018 12:35 AM, Pages, Herve wrote:
Hi, On 11/12/18 17:08, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
The duplicated() function gives TRUE if an item in a vector (or row in
a matrix, etc.) is a duplicate of an earlier item.? But what I would
like to know is which item does it duplicate?
For example,
v <- c("a", "b", "b", "a")
duplicated(v)
returns
[1] FALSE FALSE? TRUE? TRUE
What I want is a fast way to calculate
?[1] NA NA 2 1
or (equally useful to me)
?[1] 1 2 2 1
The result should have the property that if result[i] == j, then v[i]
== v[j], at least for i != j.
Does this already exist somewhere, or is it easy to write?
I generally use match() for that:
> v <- c("a", "b", "b", "a")
> match(v, v)
[1] 1 2 2 1
Yes, this is perfect. Thanks to you (and the private answer I received that suggested the same). Duncan Murdoch