Re: [R] Delete rows with duplicate field...

2010-05-04 Thread kMan
Dear someone, Jorge's solution is excellent, assuming it is what you had in mind. Please note that the help page for unique() has duplicated() listed in its "See Also" section. Thus, when you studied ?unique(), it would have made sense to read about duplicated() as well. Or perhaps you did look in

Re: [R] Delete rows with duplicate field...

2010-05-03 Thread David Winsemius
On May 3, 2010, at 9:59 AM, someone wrote: I dont want to apply the unique for all columns but just the ID column. dataset[ !duplicated(dataset$ID), ] -- David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://s

Re: [R] Delete rows with duplicate field...

2010-05-03 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
How about yourdata[ !duplicated(yourdata$ID), ] ? See ?duplicated for more information. HTH, Jorge On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:04 AM, someone <> wrote: > > as a r noob i am having another problem: > i have a big dataframe where each row corresponds to one entry and each > column is a field... >

Re: [R] Delete rows with duplicate field...

2010-05-03 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: Here are three solutions; since this question comes up fairly often, you can find other solutions in the R-help archives. (1) Use functions from base R: split the data frame by ID, extract the first record from each split and slurp them together with rbind(): > do.call(rbind, lapply(sp

Re: [R] Delete rows with duplicate field...

2010-05-03 Thread someone
could you please elaborate a little more on that? -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Delete-rows-with-duplicate-field-tp2123939p2124055.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org m

Re: [R] Delete rows with duplicate field...

2010-05-03 Thread Lanna Jin
names() - Lanna Jin lanna...@gmail.com 510-898-8525 -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Delete-rows-with-duplicate-field-tp2123939p2124036.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-proje

Re: [R] Delete rows with duplicate field...

2010-05-03 Thread someone
I dont want to apply the unique for all columns but just the ID column. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Delete-rows-with-duplicate-field-tp2123939p2124011.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

Re: [R] Delete rows with duplicate field...

2010-05-03 Thread someone
thanks for your effort. to be more precise: ID , OS, time and many more are the columns. each entry is a row. when I do: x <- unique(dataset$ID) It just gives me a list of all IDs (levels). I want to get a dataframe where just one entry (row) for each ID is included... like: userA , Win, 12:

Re: [R] Delete rows with duplicate field...

2010-05-03 Thread Lanna Jin
if that doesn't work, maybe also try: if x is your data frame with length a columns, "unique(x[,1:a])". - Lanna Jin lanna...@gmail.com 510-898-8525 -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Delete-rows-with-duplicate-field-tp2123939p2123964.html Sent from the R help ma

Re: [R] Delete rows with duplicate field...

2010-05-03 Thread Lanna Jin
Did you try: if x is the data frame, unique(x)? - Lanna Jin lanna...@gmail.com 510-898-8525 -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Delete-rows-with-duplicate-field-tp2123939p2123956.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _

[R] Delete rows with duplicate field...

2010-05-03 Thread someone
as a r noob i am having another problem: i have a big dataframe where each row corresponds to one entry and each column is a field... for instance, i have the column ID and time and many more... Id like to get a dataframe where all IDs are just included once (some users with that ID might have sev

Re: [R] Delete rows with duplicate field...

2010-05-03 Thread Lanna Jin
Try, unique(dataset[,1:a]), where a is the number of columns that you have. 1:a would apply the unique to all columns. - Lanna Jin lanna...@gmail.com 510-898-8525 -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Delete-rows-with-duplicate-field-tp2123939p2123976.html Sent fr