r - 将第一行按多列保留在R数据表中

我只想从data.table中获取第一行，并按多列进行分组。

这很简单，只需使用一列，例如:

(dt <- data.table(x = c(1, 1, 1, 2),
                  y = c(1, 1, 2, 2),
                  z = c(1, 2, 1, 2)))
#     x y z
# |1: 1 1 1
# |2: 1 1 2
# |3: 1 2 1
# |4: 2 2 2
dt[!duplicated(x)] # Remove rows 2-3
#     x y z
# |1: 1 1 1
# |2: 2 2 2

但是，当尝试基于两列进行删除时，这些方法均无效。即在这种情况下，仅删除第2行:

dt[!duplicated(x, y)] # Keeps only original data set
#     x y z
# |1: 1 1 1
# |2: 1 1 2
# |3: 1 2 1
# |4: 2 2 2
dt[!duplicated(list(x, y))] # Same as above
dt[!duplicated(c("x", "y"))] # Same as above
dt[!duplicated(list("x", "y"))] # Same as above
dt[!duplicated(c(x, y))] # Only removes duplicates from first column
#     x y z
# |1: 1 1 1
# |2: 2 2 2

除此之外，仅在某些情况下有效:

dt[!duplicated(paste0(x, y))]
#     x y z
# |1: 1 1 1
# |2: 1 2 1
# |3: 2 2 2

最佳答案

data.table为unique，duplicated和anyDuplicated提供S3方法

unique(dt, by = c('x','y'))

会给你你想要的。