This function aims to reduce the complexity of a matrix (or data.frame) in case column 'refCol' has multiple lines with same value.
In this case, it reduces the input-data to 1st line of redundant entries and returns a matrix (or data.frame) without lines identified as redundant entries for 'refCol').
in sum, this functions works lile useng unique
on a given column, and propagates the same treatment to all other columns.
firstLineOfDat(dat, refCol = 2, silent = FALSE, debug = FALSE, callFrom = NULL)
matrix (same number of columns as input)
(matrix or data.frame) main input
(integer) column number of reference-column
(logical) suppress messages
(logical) additional messages for debugging
(character) allow easier tracking of messages produced
firstOfRepeated
, unique
, duplicated
(mat1 <- matrix(c(1:6,rep(1:3,1:3)),ncol=2,dimnames=list(letters[1:6],LETTERS[1:2])))
firstLineOfDat(mat1)
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