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Extract Unique Elements

Syntax

unique(x)

Description

unique returns a vector like x but with duplicate elements removed. If an element is equal to one with a smaller index, it is removed.

See Also

duplicated which gives the indices of duplicated elements

Examples

unique(c(3:5, 11:8, 8 + 0:5)) length(unique(sample(100,100,replace=T))) #- what do you expect ? my.unique <- function(x) x[!duplicated(x)] for(i in 1:4) {x <- rpois(100, pi); print(all(unique(x) == my.unique(x))) }