Remove duplicate rows considering all or a few columns

Remove duplicate rows considering all or a few columns

remove_duplicate_rows(x, columnNames, ...)

Arguments

x

A dataframe
columnNames

Names of the columns to use for computing duplicates. If not specified, all columns are used.
...

Arguments to be passed to `duplicated` function

Examples

temp <- data.frame(x = c(1, 2, 3, 1), y = c(1, 3, 3, 1), z = c(1, 2, 3, 2))
remove_duplicate_rows(temp)
#>   x y z
#> 1 1 1 1
#> 2 2 3 2
#> 3 3 3 3
#> 4 1 1 2
remove_duplicate_rows(temp, c("x", "y"))
#>   x y z
#> 1 1 1 1
#> 2 2 3 2
#> 3 3 3 3