duplicated: Determine duplicate elements
In BiocGenerics: S4 generic functions used in Bioconductor

Description Usage Arguments Value See Also Examples

Determines which elements of a vector-like or data-frame-like object are duplicates of elements with smaller subscripts, and returns a logical vector indicating which elements (rows) are duplicates.

NOTE: This man page is for the duplicated and anyDuplicated S4 generic functions defined in the BiocGenerics package. See ?base::duplicated for the default methods (defined in the base package). Bioconductor packages can define specific methods for objects (typically vector-like or data-frame-like) not supported by the default method.

1 2	duplicated(x, incomparables=FALSE, ...) anyDuplicated(x, incomparables=FALSE, ...)

`x`	A vector-like or data-frame-like object.
`incomparables, ...`	See `?base::duplicated` for a description of these arguments.

The default duplicated method (see ?base::duplicated) returns a logical vector of length N where N is:

length(x) when x is a vector;
nrow(x) when x is a data frame.

Specific duplicated methods defined in Bioconductor packages must also return a logical vector of the same length as x when x is a vector-like object, and a logical vector with one element for each row when x is a data-frame-like object.

The default anyDuplicated method (see ?base::duplicated) returns a single non-negative integer and so must the specific anyDuplicated methods defined in Bioconductor packages.

anyDuplicated should always behave consistently with duplicated.

base::duplicated for the default duplicated and anyDuplicated methods.
showMethods for displaying a summary of the methods defined for a given generic function.
selectMethod for getting the definition of a specific method.
duplicated,Rle-method in the S4Vectors package for an example of a specific duplicated method (defined for Rle objects).
BiocGenerics for a summary of all the generics defined in the BiocGenerics package.

duplicated
showMethods("duplicated")
selectMethod("duplicated", "ANY")  # the default method

anyDuplicated
showMethods("anyDuplicated")
selectMethod("anyDuplicated", "ANY")  # the default method