R package for making all elements of a vector unique. Differs from ‘make.unique’ by starting at 1 and allowing users to customise suffix format.
Install from cran
install.packages('makeunique')Install the development version of from github:
# install.packages('remotes')
remotes::install_github('selkamand/makeunique')library(makeunique)
make_unique(c('Bob', 'Bob', 'Bob', 'Billy', 'Billy', 'Sven'))
#> [1] "Bob (1)" "Bob (2)" "Bob (3)" "Billy (1)" "Billy (2)" "Sven"
make_unique(c('Bob', 'Bob', 'Bob', 'Billy', 'Billy', 'Sven'), sep = '-', wrap_in_brackets = FALSE)
#> [1] "Bob-1" "Bob-2" "Bob-3" "Billy-1" "Billy-2" "Sven"Inspired heavily by the answers in the following thread