strUniquefy: Uniquefy a character vector

In spsUtil: 'systemPipeShiny' Utility Functions

Description

Fix duplicated values in a character vector, useful in column names and some ID structures that requires unique identifiers. If any duplicated string is found in the vector, a numeric index will be added after the these strings.

Usage

strUniquefy(x, sep_b = "_", sep_a = "", mark_first = TRUE)

Arguments

x	character vector
sep_b	string, separator before the number index
sep_a	string, separator after the number index
mark_first	bool, if duplicated values are found, do you want to add the numeric index starting from the first copy? FALSE means starting from the second copy.

Details

The input can also be a numeric vector, but the return will always be character.

Value

returns a character vector

Examples

strUniquefy(c(1,1,1,2,3))
strUniquefy(c(1,1,1,2,3), mark_first = FALSE)
strUniquefy(c(1,1,1,2,3), sep_b = "(", sep_a = ")")
strUniquefy(c("a","b","c","a","d","b"))

spsUtil documentation built on Oct. 31, 2021, 1:06 a.m.