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How to find the unique rows based on some columns in R?
Especially when the experimental conditions are same then we expect some of the row values for some columns to be the same, it is also done on purpose while designing the experiments to check the fixed effect of variables. If we want to determine the unique rows then it can be done by using unique function in R.
Example
Consider the below data frame −
> x1<-rep(c(1,2,3,4,5),each=4)
> x2<-rep(c(1,2,3,4,5),times=c(2,4,4,3,7))
> x3<-LETTERS[1:20]
> df<-data.frame(x1,x2,x3)
> df
x1 x2 x3
1 1 1 A
2 1 1 B
3 1 2 C
4 1 2 D
5 2 2 E
6 2 2 F
7 2 3 G
8 2 3 H
9 3 3 I
10 3 3 J
11 3 4 K
12 3 4 L
13 4 4 M
14 4 5 N
15 4 5 O
16 4 5 P
17 5 5 Q
18 5 5 R
19 5 5 S
20 5 5 T
> df[row.names(unique(df[,c("x1", "x2")])),]
x1 x2 x3
1 1 1 A
3 1 2 C
5 2 2 E
7 2 3 G
9 3 3 I
11 3 4 K
13 4 4 M
14 4 5 N
17 5 5 QLet’s have a look at another example −
> y1<-rep(c(letters[1:4]),times=5)
> y2<-rep(c(letters[1:4]),each=5)
> y3<-1:20
> df_y<-data.frame(y1,y2,y3)
> df_y
y1 y2 y3
1 a a 1
2 b a 2
3 c a 3
4 d a 4
5 a a 5
6 b b 6
7 c b 7
8 d b 8
9 a b 9
10 b b 10
11 c c 11
12 d c 12
13 a c 13
14 b c 14
15 c c 15
16 d d 16
17 a d 17
18 b d 18
19 c d 19
20 d d 20
> df_y[row.names(unique(df_y[,c("y1", "y2")])),]
y1 y2 y3
1 a a 1
2 b a 2
3 c a 3
4 d a 4
6 b b 6
7 c b 7
8 d b 8
9 a b 9
11 c c 11
12 d c 12
13 a c 13
14 b c 14
16 d d 16
17 a d 17
18 b d 18
19 c d 19
Updated on: 12-Aug-2020
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