try this: > x <- read.csv(text = "Country, Pet + France, Dog + France, Cat + France, Dog + Canada, Cat + Canada, Cat + Japan, Dog + Japan, Cat + Italy, Cat", as.is = TRUE) > # split by Country and then see if dups in "Pet" > xs <- split(x, x$Country) > Dups <- do.call(rbind + , lapply(xs, function(.country){ + if (all(.country$Pet[1L] == .country$Pet)) return(NULL) + .country # return match + }) + ) > row.names(Dups) <- NULL # remove rownames before printing > Dups Country Pet 1 France Dog 2 France Cat 3 France Dog 4 Japan Dog 5 Japan Cat >
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Vesco Miloushev <vesco.milous...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I want to select elements which have duplicates by are not all duplicated. > > Here is what I mean. Suppose I have a two column matrix with columns > "Country" and "Pet" > > > Country, Pet > ------------------ > France, Dog > France, Cat > France, Dog > Canada, Cat > Canada, Cat > Japan, Dog > Japan, Cat > Italy, Cat > > I want to extract all the entries that are duplicated in column > "Country" but not ALL duplicated in column "Pet". > > In this case I want > > Country, Pet > ------------------ > France, Dog > France, Cat > France, Dog > Japan, Dog > Japan, Cat > > Notice that I keep France, because not all are duplicated. If there > was no entry "France, Cat" then it all of the entries with "France" > would be eliminated. > > Thanks for your help. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.