[R] Extracting only multiple occurrences

Rolf Turner rolf.turner at xtra.co.nz
Thu Aug 8 11:26:49 CEST 2013


On 08/08/13 20:27, Jim Lemon wrote:
> On 08/08/2013 04:23 PM, Kevin Parent wrote:
>> Well that almost works, and I didn't know about duplicated() so 
>> thanks for that. However, it only gives me the duplicated values. I 
>> need the original ones too. So the result I want is: 
>> [g,g,m,m,s,s,t,t,u,u,u,v,v,x,x,y,y,y]. What duplicated() gives me is 
>> [g,m,s,t,u,u,v,x,y,y]
>>
>>
> Hi Kevin,
> How about:
>
> x[x %in% duplicated(x)]

Uh, I think you mean

     x[x %in% x[duplicated(x)]]

Another idear:

     tx <- table(x)
     tx <- tx[tx>1]
     rep(names(tx),tx)

Well, that's three lines as opposed to one, so not as good.  But it 
perhaps demonstrates
a useful tool to add to one's kit.

     cheers,

     Rolf



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