Olivier Simard-Casanova

Independent economist, data scientist, and science popularizer

#2 – Remove duplicate rows in a data frame

15 April 2022

2 November 2023

R packages:

dplyr

Olivier Simard-Casanova

Independant economist, data scientist, and science popularizer

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To run the snippet, you need to load dplyr.

If you use the Tidyverse:

library(tidyverse)
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If you do not use the Tidyverse:

library(dplyr)
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To remove duplicate rows in a data frame, use distinct(). Duplicates are rows that are replicated at least twice.

If you use the pipe operator:

df <- df %>%
    distinct()
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If you do not use the pipe operator:

df <- distinct(df)
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