Orcs (version 1.2.3)

rmDuplCols: Remove Duplicated Columns from data.frame

Description

Automatically detect and remove columns from a data.frame based on duplicated headers.

Usage

rmDuplCols(x, keep_first = TRUE, ...)

Value

Revised data.frame.

Arguments

x

Input data.frame.

keep_first

A logical determining whether the first column of an otherwise duplicated header should be kept, defaults to TRUE.

...

Currently not in use.

Author

Florian Detsch

See Also

duplicated().

Examples

## sample data
set.seed(123)
dat <- data.frame(matrix(rnorm(28), nc = 7))
names(dat) <- c("Col1", "Col1", "Col1", "Col2", "Col3", "Col3", "Col4")

dat
rmDuplCols(dat)
rmDuplCols(dat, keep_first = FALSE)