unique主要是返回一个把重复元素或行给删除的向量、数据框或数组。
向量
x <- c(3:5, 11:8, 8:11)
[1] 3 4 5 11 10 9 8 8 9 10 11
unique(x)
[1] 3 4 5 11 10 9 8
unique(x, fromLast = TRUE)
[1] 3 4 5 8 9 10 11
矩阵
e=matrix(c(c(1:12),1:4),4,4,byrow = T);e
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
[1,] 1 2 3 4
[2,] 5 6 7 8
[3,] 9 10 11 12
[4,] 1 2 3 4
unique(e)
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
[1,] 1 2 3 4
[2,] 5 6 7 8
[3,] 9 10 11 12