"Label" is not a clear term for data frames, but most data frames have rownames. If dta is a data frame, not a tibble,
rownames( dta )[ !duplicated( dta ) ] Or could use row indexes directly which( !duplicated( dta ) ) -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On September 18, 2017 6:54:29 AM PDT, Eric Berger <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Terry, >I take your question to mean how to label distinct rows of a data >frame. If >that is not your question please clarify. >I found the row.match() function in the package prodlim that can be >used to >solve this. >However since your request requires no additional dependencies I >borrowed >the relevant code from the row.match function. >Here is some obfuscated code to provide your answer in one line, per >your >request. (less obfuscated code just below that. > >Assuming your data frame is called 'df': > >df[,ncol(df)+1] <- match( do.call("paste", c(df[, , drop = FALSE], sep >= >"\\r")), do.call("paste", c(unique(df)[, , drop = FALSE], sep = "\\r")) >) > >The last column of df now contains the 'label' i.e. the row number of >the >first row in df that is the same as the given row. > >Somewhat less obfuscated > >getLabels <- function(df) { > match( do.call("paste", c(df[, , drop = FALSE], >sep = "\\r")), > do.call("paste", c(unique(df)[, , drop >= FALSE], sep = "\\r")) ) > } > >myDataFrame$label <- getLabels(myDataFrame) > > >HTH, > >Eric > > >On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. < >[email protected]> wrote: > >> This question likely has a 1 line answer, I'm just not seeing it. >(2, 3, >> or 10 lines is fine too.) >> >> For a vector I can do group <- match(x, unqiue(x)) to get a vector >that >> labels each element of x. >> What is an equivalent if x is a data frame? >> >> The result does not have to be fast: the data set will have < 100 >> elements. Since this is inside the survival package, and that >package is >> on the 'recommended' list, I can't depend on any package outside the >> recommended list. >> >> Terry T. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posti >> ng-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >[email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.

