genefu (version 2.4.2)

rename.duplicate: Function to rename duplicated strings.

Description

This function renames duplicated strings by adding their number of occurrences at the end.

Usage

rename.duplicate(x, sep = "_", verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

x

vector of strings.

sep

a character to be the separator between the number added at the end and the string itself.

verbose

TRUE to print informative messages, FALSE otherwise.

Value

• new.x
  new strings (without duplicates).
• duplicated.x
  strings which were originally duplicated.

Examples

nn <- sample(letters[1:10], 30, replace=TRUE)
table(nn)
rename.duplicate(x=nn, verbose=TRUE)