| Title: | Make Character Strings Unique |
| Version: | 1.0.0 |
| Description: | Make all elements of a character vector unique. Differs from 'make.unique' by starting at 1 and allowing users to customise suffix format. |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| Suggests: | covr, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Config/testthat/edition: | 3 |
| Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| RoxygenNote: | 7.2.0 |
| URL: | https://github.com/selkamand/makeunique |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/selkamand/makeunique/issues |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Packaged: | 2022-10-12 09:34:07 UTC; User |
| Author: | Sam El-Kamand 
[aut, cre, cph] |
| Maintainer: | Sam El-Kamand <sam.elkamand@gmail.com> |
| Repository: | CRAN |
| Date/Publication: | 2022-10-13 17:30:01 UTC |
Make Values Unique
Description
Append numbers to duplicate values to ensure all are unique
Usage
make_unique(
x,
sep = " ",
wrap_in_brackets = TRUE,
warn_about_type_conversion = TRUE
)
Arguments
x |
vector to de-duplicate |
sep |
string separating (string) |
wrap_in_brackets |
should the number indicating order of duplicated elements be wrapped in round brackets? (flag) |
warn_about_type_conversion |
should the function warn user if input type is converted to 'character' in output (flag) |
Details
Differs from 'make.unique' in base R by starting suffixes at 1 and allowing users to customize suffix format.
Value
x but duplicated values are de-duplicated by adding a number corresponding to the order in which duplicates appear
Examples
make_unique(c('bob', 'billy', 'bob', 'bob'))