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unique()

Usage:

unique(x [,index:T, fuzz:d]), x REAL, LOGICAL or CHARACTER, d >= 0 a
  REAL scalar

Keywords: ordering, variables

unique(x) computes a vector consisting of all the distinct non-MISSING
values in the REAL, LOGICAL or CHARACTER vector, matrix, or array x.
When x is REAL or LOGICAL, it is an error when all its elements are
MISSING.  If x1 contains the same values of x in a different order,
unique(x1) will return the same values as unique(x), but possibly in a
different order.

unique(x, index:T) computes a vector J of positive integers such that
x[J] is the same as unique(x).  That is it finds the subscripts of the
unique non-missing elements of x.

unique(x, fuzz:d [, index:T]), where x is REAL and d >= 0 is a REAL
scalar does the same, except that, as x is scanned, x[j] is determined
to be different from x[i], 1 <= i < j only if abs(x[j] - x[i]) > d.  The
numbers returned may depend on the ordering of values in x.  That is,
for example, unique(x, fuzz:d) and unique(sort(x),fuzz:d) may return
different sets of numbers.

Examples:
  unique(vector(5,3,1,2,4,2,5,7,2,7)) returns vector(5,3,1,2,4,7).
  unique(vector(5.1,3,2.9,3.5,5,2.6), fuzz:.15) returns
     vector(5.1,3,3.5,2.6)
  unique(sort(vector(5.1,3,2.9,3.5,5,2.6)), fuzz:.15) returns
     vector(2.6,2.9,3.5,5)
  unique(vector("B","C","A","B","D","A","A")) returns
     vector("B","C","A","D")
  unique(vector(T,T,T,F,T)) returns vector(T,F)
  unique(vector("B","C","A","B","D","A","A"), index:T) returns
    vector(1,2,3,5)
  a <- factor(match(x,unique(x))) computes a factor each level of which
    corresponds to a unique value of vector x.
  a <- factor(match(x,sort(unique(x)))) computes a factor each level of
    which corresponds to a unique value of vector x, with the factor
    levels in the same numerical or alphabetic order as the elements of
    x

See also match().