> This seems to work but is horribly slow (some files I am working with have > over 500,000 lines). Can anyone suggest a faster way of doing this, perhaps > a way that does not use a for loop? Thanks. If the table solutions don't work or take forever with your real data, have a look into the wiki: http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:data-frames:count_and_extract_unique_rows
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