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makeunique

Make Values of Character Vector Unique

Description

Paste characters on to values of a character vector to make them unique.

Usage

makeUnique(x)

Arguments

x

object to be coerced to a character vector

Details

Repeat values of x are labelled with suffixes "1", "2" etc.

Value

A character vector of the same length as x

Author(s)

Gordon Smyth

See Also

makeUnique is called by merge.RGList. Compare with make.unique in the base package.

Examples

x <- c("a","a","b")
makeUnique(x)
limma

Linear Models for Microarray Data

v3.46.0
GPL (>=2)
Authors
Gordon Smyth [cre,aut], Yifang Hu [ctb], Matthew Ritchie [ctb], Jeremy Silver [ctb], James Wettenhall [ctb], Davis McCarthy [ctb], Di Wu [ctb], Wei Shi [ctb], Belinda Phipson [ctb], Aaron Lun [ctb], Natalie Thorne [ctb], Alicia Oshlack [ctb], Carolyn de Graaf [ctb], Yunshun Chen [ctb], Mette Langaas [ctb], Egil Ferkingstad [ctb], Marcus Davy [ctb], Francois Pepin [ctb], Dongseok Choi [ctb]
Initial release
2020-10-19

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