[R] how to make row.names based on column1 with duplicated values

[William Dunlap]

You can do this with ave():

gene <- c("a","b","c","d","c","d","c","f")
ave(gene, gene, FUN=function(x)if(length(x)>1)paste(x,seq_along(x),sep="-")
else x)
# [1] "a"   "b"   "c-1" "d-1" "c-2" "d-2" "c-3" "f"

You can probably speed it up a bit by pulling the paste() out of FUN
and doing it later.  It would be simpler if you put the '-N' after all
genes,
not just the ones that were not repeated.



Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 10:18 PM, Stephen HonKit Wong <stephen66 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear All,
> Suppose I have a dataframe like this with many thousands rows all with
> different names:
> data.frame(gene=c("a","b","c","d","c","d","c","f"),value=c(
> 20,300,48,55,9,2,100,200)),
>
> I want to set column "gene" as row.names, but there are duplicates (c, d),
> which I want to transform into this as row names: a, b, c-1, d-1, c-2, d-2,
> c-3, f
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Stephen
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