Dear sir, Thanks a lot for the solution.
It was such a simple solution, but people like me close their minds and don't think of data.frame as a whole and keep on thinking about vector elements only. I also almost got the solution when I tried qq = unique(pp) (qq <- sub(" .*","", qq)) but this was giving me only first element of qq. so I reversed the way I had defined paste command and saved it in some otehr name and again applied above command and I got the element. But I know that is not how good programs are written. Regards Vincy --- On Sat, 3/12/11, Petr Savicky <savi...@praha1.ff.cuni.cz> wrote: From: Petr Savicky <savi...@praha1.ff.cuni.cz> Subject: Re: [R] Identifying unique pairs To: r-help@r-project.org Received: Saturday, March 12, 2011, 2:10 PM On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 03:20:01AM -0800, Vincy Pyne wrote: > Dear R helpers > > Suppose I have a data frame as given below > > mydat = data.frame(x = c(1,1,1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 5, 5, 6), y = c(10, 10, 10, 8, > 8, 8, 7, 7, 2, 2, 4)) > [...] > > unique(mydat$x) will give me 1, 2, 5, 6? i.e. 4 values and > unique(mydat$y) will give me 10, 8, 7, 2, 4. > > What I need is a data frame where I will get a vector (say) x_new as (1, 2, > 2, 5, 6) and corresponding y_new as (10, 8, 7, 2, 4). I need to use these two > vectors viz. x_new and y_new seperately for further processing. They may be > under same data frame say mydat_new but I should be able to access them as > mydat_new$x_new and similarly for y. > > I tried following way. > > pp = paste(mydat$x, mydat$y) > > pp = > pp > ?[1] "1 10" "1 10" "1 10" "2 8"? "2 8"? "2 8"? "2 7"? "2 7"? "5 2"? "5 2"? "6 > 4" > > qq = unique(pp) > > > qq > [1] "1 10" "2 8"? "2 7"? "5 2"? "6 4" Hi. If i understand you correctly, then the solution is easy, since function unique() can handle also rows of a data frame. Is the following, what you expect? unique(mydat) x y 1 1 10 4 2 8 7 2 7 9 5 2 11 6 4 Petr Savicky. ______________________________________________ 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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